Example sentences of "an [noun] of [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 2 | " We have an apprenticeship of seven years to begin with , but 99 out of 100 of these girls when they go to the trade expect that they will be married before that time passes . |
| 3 | Her attitude was one with which the reader will now be familiar : that women could not reasonably expect the same pay as men : That we know would be impossible , at least in the meantime , as up to now all girl apprentices have only served an apprenticeship of three years , whereas a boy serves seven . |
| 4 | Hartley concluded his observations on natural beauty by stressing that although such scenes ‘ strike the young mind with pleasure ’ , it is only ‘ after a considerable time ’ that the responses rise to their maximum ; the poem in fact deals with an interval of five years . |
| 5 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 6 | After Mr. Ferguson 's departure , there was an interval of many years without any regular meetings . |
| 7 | Christie 's New York will be auctioning antiquities after an interval of many years . |
| 8 | In 1777 , however , he was packed off to India again , this time to Calcutta , where , with the exception of an interval of two years in London managing a parliamentary petition , he was to remain until he retired in 1808 . |
| 9 | From then until his death some thirty years later , except for an interval of six years between 1772 and 1778 , Sulivan was more or less continuously a director . |
| 10 | Council agreed that , after an interval of six years , it would again be prepared to consider applications for recognition from schools of architecture in South Africa . |
| 11 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 12 | It must be rare for a publishing house to be sent a manuscript twice after an interval of 62 years . |
| 13 | After an interval of 54 years the World Federation of Hungarians held its third congress in Budapest on Aug. 19-21 . |
| 14 | It is renewed ( in the sequel , Rupert of Hentzau ) for a further period when , after an interval of some years , the machinations of Michael 's nephew Rupert lead to the King 's death and loyal Sapt appeals to Rassendyll once more for help . |
| 15 | It is as well that there is an interval of twenty-five years or so between the baking of these pies — I imagine it will take the Denby Dalers this amount of time to recover . |
| 16 | Once they reach an age of 4–5 years the goldfish will often start to lose their colouration and gradually become paler . |
| 17 | Campbell surged between two defenders , shrugging off Pearce 's challenge , then drove the ball out of the reach of Sealey , the on-loan goalkeeper from Aston Villa back at Highfield Road after an absence of nine years . |
| 18 | Bilici Constantin , a cheery film man in his early 40s , hurried back from France after an absence of 10 years and arrived just as Ceausescu fell . |
| 19 | Rigoletto returns to Opera North 's repertory after an absence of 10 years in an entirely new staging which will evoke the decadent splendour of the Mantuan court . |
| 20 | When county cricket began again in 1919 , Crawford was back with Surrey , and had lost none of his old form after an absence of 10 years . |
| 21 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 22 | GERAINT JARMAN A'R CYNGANEDDWYR : ‘ Rhiniog ’ founding father of Welsh language music scene Geraint Jarman returns after an absence of five years — out now |
| 23 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 24 | Lily meanwhile works for the Mob , placing bets to shorten the odds at racetracks ; when she impulsively decides to re-enter her son 's life , after an absence of eight years , just in time to save it . |
| 25 | Harry , Lord Monchensey , has returned after an absence of eight years to the family home of Wishwood where his mother and other relatives are waiting for him . |
| 26 | Mary , Queen of Scots returned to Scotland after an absence of thirteen years and landed at Leith on 19th August . |
| 27 | A further problem arises in relation to those who return to church life after an absence of many years , or who transfer from one church to another . |
| 28 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 29 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 30 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |