Example sentences of "after [adj] years [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 32 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 33 | Guinness brands were also reintroduced into Argentina during 1992 after ten years ' absence . |
| 34 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 35 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 36 | The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience . |
| 37 | COALPORT production director Mike Harley presents a long service award to Hazel Horne , production counter , after 25 years ' service . |
| 38 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 39 | He retired in 1968 after 50 years ' service . |
| 40 | The dam , completed in 1890 after nine years ' work , is 390yds long and 127′ thick at the base . |
| 41 | After nine years ' captivity at Theodore 's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland . |
| 42 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 43 | I am greatly honoured to have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland in succession to Mr Michael Strachan , who retired in November 1990 after 16 years ' service . |
| 44 | After seventeen years ' service with Stoddard Ellen Gardner retired from her position as an Export Administrator on the 27th July . |
| 45 | Following a speech by Lord Sterling , the reply on behalf of the guests was made by Alan Langley , who retired as Managing Director of P&O Cruises in 1990 after 42 years ' service with P&O , BI and Mackinnon Mackenzie . |
| 46 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 47 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 48 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 49 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 50 | After five years ' service , Mr Rump was ordered to work outside the south of England and , relying on his manager 's promise , he refused . |
| 51 | After five years ' argument , the UK agreed terms . |
| 52 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 53 | DOREEN Barnett , seated , with one of her retirement gifts , says farewell to her colleagues in the potting department at Imperial Pottery after 27 years ' service . |
| 54 | A former chairman and managing director of Mackinnon Mackenzie , Sandy Oag retired in 1973 after 27 years ' service . |
| 55 | Jessop died at Butterley Hall , Derbyshire , 18 November 1814 after several years ' illness . |
| 56 | But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs . |
| 57 | Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) . |
| 58 | OLIVE Booth says goodbye to friends and colleagues on her retirement as a lithographer after 15 years ' service in the decorating department at Tuscan . |
| 59 | To the right lithographer Enid Randles bids farewell to friends and colleagues at Eagle Pottery after 15 years ' service . |
| 60 | After 28 years ' service , the 47-year-old major will lose his Army quarters in Soltau but will be entitled to a pension of about Pounds 15,000 a year . |