Example sentences of "years of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now 20 , Brooklyn-born Lisa B — she would use ‘ Barbuscia ’ , but says no one can pronounce it — has three successful years of modelling behind her and is venturing into the world of music . |
| 2 | All those years of Listen With Mother must have sunk in . |
| 3 | 1956 : after years of writing about nothing much happening 'cos everything is crap THE BEAST IS BORN … |
| 4 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 5 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 6 | To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) . |
| 7 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 8 | This , he believes , has taught the group to be flexible — after 15 years of looking after multivendor systems , it does n't simply have to rely on managing subcontractors unlike many of its rivals . |
| 9 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 10 | Years of operating on a shoestring , as the fourth of Deng 's ‘ four modernisations ’ after agriculture , industry and science , have left the PLA ill-equipped for modern warfare . |
| 11 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 12 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 13 | For many lesbians the opportunity to wear ‘ feminine ’ clothes is a relief ‘ after all these years of dressing like men who dress badly ’ . |
| 14 | Fifteen years of insisting on integration had borne little fruit . |
| 15 | Now at least we have a manager , who after two years of stumbling in the dark , has seen the light . |
| 16 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 17 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 18 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 19 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 20 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 21 | I covered myself in myself and became the observer , an easy role to assume after years of struggling with their throaty language and its local eccentricities , its dialects and apposite linguistic twists and turns . |
| 22 | If , however , the truth is that after years of struggling with her uncertain temperament , and your own fading nerves , you have decided to breed rather than face parting with her , then it is not a good idea . |
| 23 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 24 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 25 | Open years are syndicate years of account for which liabilities are too huge or unpredictable to be reinsured into a successor account . |
| 26 | I have had the dubious privilege over the years of debating with him on many occasions . |
| 27 | Britain 's mute swan has made a rapid recovery after years of poisoning by anglers , according to a census by English Nature . |
| 28 | He said that after more than two years of searching through war documents he was now certain that he flew from Klagenfurt on 22 May . |
| 29 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 30 | Two years of pandering to bloated businessmen and the nouveau riche did begin to pall on me . ’ |