Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for many years after 1979 this approach seemed to embody many of the qualities which a depressed , declining nation yearned for and acclaimed . |
| 2 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |
| 3 | But after 10 years of Tory rule , he had had enough of that approach to politics . |
| 4 | But after 10 years of bookselling he is keen to retire . |
| 5 | But after two years of struggling , engineers at Grundig have developed a mechanism that manages the same trick while the cassette stays in place . |
| 6 | But after two years of such conferences , things began to change . |
| 7 | But after four years on Blue Peter , it could be time for a move . |
| 8 | The merchants of Awjla and Jalu contested this claim , but after some years of bloody conflict they were confined to the oases : if they wished to travel outside they , too , had to pay a fee to Zuwaya . |
| 9 | According to an old story the Devil , intending to win the souls of the Basques , tried to learn their language , but after seven years of unremitting study had mastered only three words . |
| 10 | But after 40 years of over-ideologisation , our first task is to build proper political structures and democratic institutions . |
| 11 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | But after 23 years of inspiration and support , what has the Campaign really achieved ? |
| 13 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 14 | It may not have been the ideal preparation but after 20 years as a professional , I have got my priorities right . ’ |
| 15 | Dame Janet Fookes , never a minister but with 22 years of parliamentary experience behind her , and one of the Speaker 's panel of deputies , is fully qualified . |
| 16 | Dušan withstood the eastern invaders both in 1345 and 1349 , but within thirty years of his death in 1355 most of his empire had been overrun by the Turks and Serbia awaited the coup de grâce , which came in 1389 with the defeat of Prince Lazar at Kosovo Polje . |
| 17 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 18 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |
| 19 | Bobby groaned — and not only from the discomfort of his bumps and bruises , but from seven years of continuing dilemma . |
| 20 | Anne remembers sleeping seven to a bed but at ninety-six years of age was still puzzling out where the eighth member of the troupe ended up . |
| 21 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 22 | But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away . |