Example sentences of "years [prep] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 5 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 6 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 7 | After five years of controversy it is about to be laid to rest . |
| 8 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |
| 9 | But after so many years in showbusiness it was n't surprising . |
| 10 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 11 | If we want to understand the current penal crisis we need to examine the way this discretion is exercised , its consequences for the rest of the penal system , and the reasons for the continuing failure over the years to subject it to more effective control . |