Example sentences of "years at the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 2 | Mr Devaux said : ‘ I have had 22 happy years at the bar but I 'm pleased to be appointed particularly in the area in which I 've practised for 14 years now . ’ |
| 3 | Not only will the years at the Bar have moulded the barrister , but ‘ judicial qualities ’ will have been noted under the Lord Chancellor 's system for recording the progress of barristers . |
| 4 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |
| 5 | ONE can explain satisfactorily the uncorroded condition of Holland 1 , the Royal Navy 's first submarine , after 70 years at the bottom of the English Channel . |
| 6 | As we move into 1993 The Women Artists Slide Library will be presenting a profile on its work and development over the last 10 years at the Centre 181 Gallery , King Street , in Hammersmith , London . |
| 7 | The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator . |
| 8 | But in 10 short years at the turn of the century all this changed and the ‘ common , innocent , friendly ’ house fly was subjected to the most vicious of character assassinations . |
| 9 | Kevin Tamati 's Red Devils hosted and won the Salford Sevens for the second time in four years at The Willows yesterday . |
| 10 | My early years at the school were , then , a mixture of deception ( on my part ) and the fear of humiliation . |
| 11 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 12 | William Chorleton had returned to spend his last two years at the School . |
| 13 | After four years at the School , he resigned with effect from Christmas 1673 to enter the Ministry full-time . |
| 14 | The 1830s and early 1840s were successful years at the School . |
| 15 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 16 | The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday . |
| 17 | Fred had perfected it during his ten years at the school . |
| 18 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 19 | His career in the upper echelons of the Football League seemed to have ended when John moved from Charlton to Crystal Palace on 25 October 1963 after nine years at The Valley . |
| 20 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 21 | Mr Fisher worked for several years at the Squilver Quarry as office manager , and in his retirement served for a lengthy period as Hon. |
| 22 | John Harrison directs Twelfth Night , his 24th Shakespeare in 18 years at the theatre . |
| 23 | She worked for 25 years at the Burtons Biscuit factory , now based at Sighthill , and for many years was a union branch secretary . |
| 24 | His only surviving set of clothes was exhibited for many years at the London Inn on St. John 's Street , and the American dwarf Charles Stratton ( ‘ General Tom Thumb ’ ) visited Stamford in 1846 , 1859 , and with his wife Livinia Warren and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren in 1866 , to view the phenomenon . |
| 25 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 26 | After more than three years at the Manor , he had managed to pull round the farms and get the timber business running smoothly . |
| 27 | He already had an engineer 's licence , the product of nearly three years at the AST ( Air Services Training ) school of aeronautical engineering near Perth . |
| 28 | Prospecting licences can be for up to 250 km² ; for an initial period of two years , renewable for a further two years at the discretion of the Department . |
| 29 | An interest in Christianity had first arisen among the Nez Perce when a Spokan and a Kutenai boy returned after four years at the Red River Church of England Mission School . |
| 30 | MIDDLE YEARS AT THE WORKHOUSE |