Example sentences of "years of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 4 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After more than two years of discussions they have decided to publish two separate statements , one from each country , in the next few weeks . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 11 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 12 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Experience with practical calculations helps , but even after years of work one usually remains this side of infallibility . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 18 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 19 | It would be very carefully calculated and they 'd be given the right amount of the proteins that they could use to grow , because in the first years of life there 's very rapid growth and development is n't there ? |
| 20 | Over her nine years of life there 's been a serious build-up of fluid on her chest . |
| 21 | In place of the aggressive approach of the early years of Surrealism itself , Barr 's commentary is in moderated phrases pointing to similarities between Surrealism and works firmly within the tradition of Western art : |
| 22 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
| 23 | It was an unemotional summary ; Rostov thought that it hid well the bitterness which he felt towards Irina 's kin for their concerted opposition to her marriage , for the years of separation which had been achieved by her father 's influence with the Navy Board and , not least , for the extent to which Alexei 's upbringing had been influenced by the rigid infrastructure of the Court . |
| 24 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 25 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 26 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 27 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
| 28 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 29 | And this is horseradish — any bitter root will do , for all the years of bile they swallowed as slaves . |
| 30 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |