Example sentences of "years in the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For more than 20 years in the House I have tried to be a friend to all the peoples of Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | after seventeen years in the business I think I know what an almond looks like |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |