Example sentences of "years of [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 2 | Now at least we have a manager , who after two years of stumbling in the dark , has seen the light . |
| 3 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 4 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
| 5 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 6 | Many postgraduates after three years of thinking in the abstract feel quite stupid when required to think concretely . ) |
| 7 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 8 | After three years of groping in the dark they have emerged not quite into sparkling sunshine but at least into the hint of a new dawn . |
| 9 | ( An aside : After over 20 years of climbing in the Peak District I have come to the conclusion that the upper pitch of Valkyrie sees more epics than almost any other . |
| 10 | The well-dressing was started in Dore in 1959 as an added attraction for the scout gala , which takes place on the second Saturday in July , so an obvious choice for the design was ‘ A Boy Scout ’ , representing fifty years of scouting in the district . |
| 11 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |