Example sentences of "after [num] year [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 13th June , Riba Hair retired after 22 years continuous service with the company . |
| 2 | His first wife christened Emily , affectionately and universally known as Pem died on Christmas Day 1988 after 53 years happy marriage . |
| 3 | It 's not unusual nowadays to see ex-bricklayers returning to college after 10 years hard labour to study for computing degrees or for ex-secretaries to take a completely different direction and to join a furniture restoration course . |
| 4 | It is this straight talking and her lived-in looks that after 10 years hard slog have finally made her hot film property . |
| 5 | Margaret says she looks after 35 year old Andrew 24 hours a day . |
| 6 | It should however be noted that by virtue of the automatic discharge from a first bankruptcy after three years irrespective of the debtor 's conduct ( short of criminal offence ) , an individual debtor will be treated far more leniently than a company director guilty of wrongful trading , who can be disqualified for up to 15 years . |
| 7 | Each community was organised independently , with membership by initiation into secret rites , and then after three years full membership being conferred . |
| 8 | The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham . |
| 9 | ( i ) Your basic annual leave entitlement is 20 days , to be increased by 5 days after 5 years reckonable service ( prior to the commencement of the leave year , which commences on 1 October and finishes on 30 September ) . |
| 10 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 11 | John Chalcraft saw this happen and must have wondered a thing or two after 50 years personal involvement . |
| 12 | It is also a vindication of the lesson Weill , though one of Berlin 's most intellectual musicians , had taken from his mentor : ‘ My teacher Busoni , at the end of his life , hammered into me one basic truth which he had arrived at after 50 years pure aestheticism — the fear of triviality is the greatest handicap for the modern artist , it is the main reason why ‘ modern ’ music got more and more removed from reality . ’ |
| 13 | But , after fifteen years alone on the island , I was afraid , and I did not leave my cave for three days . |
| 14 | After five years intensive training on the secluded world of Ponten VI — a curious mixture of legal precedent and target practice — Bishop was allowed out in the field as squire to a more experienced Adjudicator . |
| 15 | All the teachers in East and West Sussex are very active ; regular rallies , multi-movement days , Come and Try Its etc. keep the Medau flag flying high , while Pat Shere has just relinquished the Chair of Finance Sub-Committee after five years active service . |
| 16 | Her Memoirs ( which reprints her earlier book ) were begun at Portobello near Edinburgh in 1807 , finished in dire poverty after five years housebound with rheumatism , and published by subscription , 1810 . |
| 17 | Police surrounded the house in Oxford 's sidney street last May , after 51 year old Roger Jones threatened to shoot a tax inspector and a bailiff . |
| 18 | ‘ After two years married to an Englishman , I am more than happy . ’ |
| 19 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |