Example sentences of "after [adj] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After this extraordinary year it is about time the nettle was grasped . |
| 2 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 3 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 4 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 5 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 6 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 7 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 8 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 9 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 10 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 11 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 12 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 13 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 15 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 16 | After all these years he was still afraid . |
| 17 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 18 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 19 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 20 | After fifteen thousand years they were very good at it ! |
| 21 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 22 | After thirty long years it was time to forget the past . |