Example sentences of "years [prep] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 2 | Kierkegaard 's relatively short life was largely confined to Copenhagen , where after many years as a student he wrote a series of unsystematic works on philosophy , theology and aesthetics . |
| 3 | After seven years as a battlefield it was now an unearthly , hellish landscape . |
| 4 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 5 | But over the years as an organization we 've grown organically and geographically quite significantly , such that while in the U K we 're in Harrogate and Basingstoke , we have an ever increasing presence in North America , Europe , the Far East and Australasia . |
| 6 | However , there are still many who feel that Beattie is the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice and that he has served almost 20 years for a crime he did not commit . |
| 7 | Cases cited in the Service 's annual report include one involving three members of a family disqualified for a total of 24 years for the part they played in the failure of a plant hire company . |
| 8 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 9 | For a number of years after the war they were also expected to administer to their classes a daily dose of cod liver oil tablets and a spoonful of malt . |
| 10 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 11 | Mary of Guise had infinitely more ability and determination , but for the first twelve years of the minority she had no official role in government , and throughout the whole period her main interest lay in achieving a French marriage for her daughter , even if that meant doing little about the existence of Protestantism . |
| 12 | But for the last two years of the war he at least had something to do . |
| 13 | During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics . |
| 14 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 15 | In the last two years of the war I was in orbit visiting every station and squadron in my endless quest for Pathfinders . |
| 16 | In the early years of the regime it was necessary to rely on the ‘ retained cadres ’ from the Nationalist government because the working and peasant classes , though loyal politically , could not produce people of sufficient literacy to staff the bureaucracy . |
| 17 | After serving on various eyres and assizes , he became chief justice of the King 's Bench in 1274 and remained so until 1290 ; in the last ten years of the reign he was chief justice of the Common Bench . |
| 18 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 19 | And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world . |
| 20 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 21 | I trust we shall be back in two years from the time we left England … |
| 22 | He recently spent two years in the musical Me and My Girl in London 's West End and , after 53 years in the business , has no wish to retire . |
| 23 | For more than 20 years in the House I have tried to be a friend to all the peoples of Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | after seventeen years in the business I think I know what an almond looks like |
| 25 | It used to be said — in the face of evidence of a growing and changing repertory of enormous size — that Karajan was interested in technology because after so many years in the business he had exhausted his interest in the music itself . |
| 26 | Planes roared above , and had he not got used to their sound from his years in the Zoo he might have been afraid of them . |
| 27 | After three glorious years in the sunshine I was sent to Holland where I remained until I joined AIB in 1955 as a Senior Inspector of Accidents ( Operations ) . |
| 28 | If we can get that , then five or six years down the track we might be producing players who can do something at world level . ’ |
| 29 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 30 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |