Example sentences of "years at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the sort of wit , understated and warm , which characterised his years at the International Secretariat , first as head of the Asia Region and then throughout his term as secretary general . |
| 2 | It must be remembered that na umpire in professional cricket is generally some 70 years at the nearest point from the rope . |
| 3 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |
| 4 | So you were twenty years at the first place as well ? |
| 5 | The latest Sizewell A worker to die from leukaemia entered radiation areas only infrequently during his 18 years at the existing Magnox plant . |
| 6 | REPUBLIC of Ireland defender Mick McCarthy took charge of Millwall yesterday when former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch resigned after two years at the Second Division club . |
| 7 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 8 | These years , like the first few years at the Secondary School , see Burton relapsing quite cheerfully into that boyo-larrikin-rugby-skiving coast through life : not a care , it appeared , in the world — Tom Jones at large . |
| 9 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 10 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |
| 11 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 12 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 13 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 14 | A DRUG dealer who recruited youngsters to sell ecstasy and cannabis in the Highlands was jailed for five years at the High Court in Inverness yesterday . |
| 15 | A FORMER tyre depot manager involved in drug dealing was jailed for three years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 16 | A STORNOWAY man was jailed for four years at the High Court in Inverness after being convicted of hijacking a lorry with a £30,000 load of spirits , tobacco and groceries . |
| 17 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 18 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 19 | After some years at the old house , George burt rebuilt it as a more imposing residence for his own retirement . |
| 20 | He was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey after admitting manslaughter . |
| 21 | June 15 : Newtownbutler man Alan Johnson jailed for 14 years at the Old Bailey for possession of £3m-worth of heroin . |
| 22 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |
| 23 | During his years at the Old Palace he spent considerable sums on restoring the building . |
| 24 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 25 | After being baptised in the hands of Henry Spalding , Joseph spent much of his first seven years at the Lapwai Mission , where Eliza Spalding 's growing band of helpers gave academic and religious instruction . |
| 26 | has seen many changes in the pig industry over the years at the NAC Pig Unit at Stoneleigh . |
| 27 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 28 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 29 | The factory 's been producing leather goods for more than seventy years at the same site . |
| 30 | Firstly , misplaced conceptions within the élites of Hitler as a man whom they could trust and ‘ work with ’ , in contrast to the Party radicals , integrated the disparate sectors of the élites and mobilized their support behind the Nazi leadership in the critical early years at the same time that Hitler 's popularity provided the mass base of legitimation for the presumed reassertion of their own spheres of domination . |