Example sentences of "after a lifetime [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend is an overworked term in jazz : it can describe a figure like Eubie Blake , who died at 100 after a lifetime 's achievement , or those who died young , their promise unfulfilled , like everyone from Jimmy Blanton to Charlie Parker . |
| 2 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 3 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 4 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 5 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 6 | William Riley Parker 's monumental biography of Milton , which appeared after a lifetime 's research in 1968 , resolutely portrays Milton 's involvement with the politics of the mid-seventeenth century as an unfortunate distraction . |
| 7 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 8 | If they give advice , they mainly do it after a lifetime 's experience and because they are anxious to help — though I 'll not deny that some parents can be real nasties as far as their children are concerned . |