Example sentences of "of [pron] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 2 | The jury was told that although she was 73 , Lady Cross , a mother of three , had the looks and agility of someone 20 years younger and had fought valiantly for her life . |
| 3 | Doreen said : ‘ I 've been really lucky in that I 've enjoyed everyone of my 34 years with the company . |
| 4 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 5 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 6 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |
| 7 | Students following the MA(Honours) course are expected to study Islamic History and the Modern History of the Middle East during two of their four years . |
| 8 | She had seen it every night and morning for at least 15 of their 18 years of marriage . |
| 9 | The greatest flower show in the world is how the organisers describe the result of their 10 years planning and planting — and rightly so . |
| 10 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |
| 11 | In 1990 , men aged 65 years could expect to spend around six months of their 14.2 years of remaining life expectancy in residential care ; for women of the same age this figure was 1.1 remaining years , an amount greater both absolutely and as a proportion of total remaining life expectancy ( table III ) . |
| 12 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 13 | Since his widow , Sonia , has declined appointment in his place as president of the Congress Party , his murder will probably mark the end of the Nehru dynasty which has ruled India for 40 of its 44 years of independence . |
| 14 | Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow . |
| 15 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 16 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 17 | Neath have been a force in the Welsh game for most of its 120 years but were never , until lately , the force . |
| 18 | Midland Bank have sponsored the tournament at the Brighton Centre for five of its 15 years and have contributed £1.5m in prize money . |
| 19 | After British wartime bombing and a Soviet programme of Russification , few traces of its 700 years of almost uninterrupted German history remain . |
| 20 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 21 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 22 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 23 | As the final chords swelled to the close , the ‘ star ’ revealed all of her eleven years by running from centre stage to her mother 's arms while the audience stood on their feet and cheered . |
| 24 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 25 | She looked utterly desolate and all of her thirty-eight years ; her cheeks seemed to sag and her jaw-line looked heavy . |
| 26 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 27 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 28 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 29 | Jean Moss got a pleasant surprise when , at the first class of the autumn session , her Melbourne class members presented her with a specially engraved glass candle-holder in celebration of her 25 years of Medau teaching . |
| 30 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |