Example sentences of "years [prep] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of experience tell us that standard beds may not be right for every human body . |
| 2 | Save The Children Fund 's years of experience shows it does n't work and indeed that form of incarceration can lead to some of the tragic circumstances of self image , damage and even death which have occurred in penal institutions and been reported recently . |
| 3 | David decided to test out the conditions — his ten years of experience showed us what could be achieved with practice . |
| 4 | Italy may be what some people have called a geographical expression , but England certainly is not , and we have 1,000 years of history to prove it . |
| 5 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 6 | ‘ How many years of peace have they got left ? ’ |
| 7 | The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon , is risking all by working with both children AND animals , but Trevor Bannister , veteran of 20 years of panto takes it all in his stride . |
| 8 | Ten years of study persuaded him that she was no such thing . |
| 9 | In a book that returns time and time again to the issue of cultural hypocrisy , the most biting satire is saved for those whose three years in Cameroon teach them nothing . |
| 10 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 11 | He tells me : ‘ Quite frankly after 10 years on shift work I 'm looking forward to a bit of a break . |
| 12 | But football has n't always landed the 6ft 3in ‘ keeper so squarely on his feet three frustrating years at Spurs left him ‘ thoroughly pigged off ’ he admits . |