Example sentences of "after [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 32 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 33 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 34 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 35 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 36 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 37 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 38 | After several years I finished my punishment , and so I was allowed to work for myself . |
| 39 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 40 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 41 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 42 | After two years they die out , unable to complete with the grass and your nursery-raised seedlings , which are plug-planted into the award after the second mowing . |
| 43 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 44 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 45 | After two years he was back heading Brigade S , a swing pop band who borrowed much from Kid Creole And The Coconuts . |
| 46 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 47 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 48 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 49 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 50 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 51 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 52 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 53 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 54 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 55 | After seven years she says coping with them STILL is n't getting any easier . |
| 56 | After seven years I came to the Law Society as Secretary-General . |