Example sentences of "year [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
2 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
3 | Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence . |
4 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
5 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
6 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
7 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
8 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
9 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
10 | Could it be the years of experience it takes to know where the grape is just ripe or perhaps the skill needed to reach that perfectly balanced wine . |
11 | After more than two years of discussions they have decided to publish two separate statements , one from each country , in the next few weeks . |
12 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
13 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
14 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
15 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
16 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
17 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
18 | In more than five years of operation it allegedly invested more than US$50,000,000 in cocaine trafficking , arms smuggling and the illegal export of Indian mummies from the northern Atacama desert region . |
19 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
20 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
21 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
22 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
23 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
24 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
25 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
26 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
27 | And this is horseradish — any bitter root will do , for all the years of bile they swallowed as slaves . |
28 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
29 | After repeated medical examinations and seven years of litigation he was awarded £12,000 in compensation , and " aided by continuous benefits , he stayed off work , exhausted through lack of sleep " . |
30 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |