Example sentences of "years [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Formula One now being safe , but I think that is dangerous talk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week . |
| 4 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 5 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 6 | Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence . |
| 7 | British Equestrian Insurance Brokers Limited have had policies available for 15 years for riders who do not own horses as well as those who do . |
| 8 | Eight years for youth who stabbed frail pensioner , 85 |
| 9 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 10 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
| 11 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 12 | Only six years after Waterloo there were already 20,028 tons of steam shipping around the coasts . |
| 13 | Thus the ghastly memories brought back to him by an egg ; or his feeling , so terrible he does not express it , when 20 years after Maidanek his friend Michael has forgotten his name . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 17 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After more than two years of discussions they have decided to publish two separate statements , one from each country , in the next few weeks . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 24 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 25 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Experience with practical calculations helps , but even after years of work one usually remains this side of infallibility . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 30 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |