Example sentences of "years of [noun sg] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 10 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 11 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And this is horseradish — any bitter root will do , for all the years of bile they swallowed as slaves . |
| 22 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 23 | After repeated medical examinations and seven years of litigation he was awarded £12,000 in compensation , and " aided by continuous benefits , he stayed off work , exhausted through lack of sleep " . |
| 24 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 25 | AFTER 16 years of marriage we are splitting up and are both agreed that it is the best thing to do . |
| 26 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 27 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 28 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |
| 29 | After more than fifty-four years of marriage she was by his side when he died at the age of eighty-four , at 21 Frimley Gardens , Mitcham , south London , 4 June 1943 . |
| 30 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |