Example sentences of "many years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although President Barco is given credit for good intentions , the fear is that his move has come too late : by now , the money at stake is too big , the drug barons too firmly entrenched in Colombian society , and the state institutions too deeply compromised by too many years of complacency , if not complicity . |
| 2 | In England the criticism of continued military activity by John Wyclif , the opposition to war expressed by men of Lollard sympathies such as William Swynderby , the lassitude provoked by so many years of conflict , mirrored in some of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , are indicative both of people 's reflection regarding the morality of war and the ways in which it was being fought , and of the apparent futility of allowing it to continue along its present drift , no real advantage accruing to either side in spite of the great cost , both human and financial , to all . |
| 3 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 4 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
| 5 | So many years of memories . |
| 6 | Thus the time-honoured name of Revenue Cutter was dropped after so many years of tradition . |
| 7 | Apart from the cachet of a university appointment which followed the award of an honorary Cambridge MA the previous year in recognition of his many years of service to adult education , the post offered unprecedented security and an improved , assured salary . |
| 8 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 9 | The patination of the wood and the delightful patchwork of sheet-iron repairs testify to its many years of service . |
| 10 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The person who , despite their concern about the loss of a company pension , leaves an organisation after many years of service in a disliked job to try a new field may well do better , in health terms , than the person who sticks it out in the miserable job . |
| 13 | ‘ If the savings by the closing are in the order that the authorities are suggesting , then the small payment being suggested would appear to make a lot of financial sense , while at the same time recognising the very valuable contribution of men who have given many years of service . ’ |
| 14 | Those ‘ great ’ butlers like Mr Marshall who have it , I am sure , acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience . |
| 15 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 16 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 17 | In a meeting with Menem in New York on Oct. 1 the US President George Bush had welcomed the Argentine decision to send troops to assist in the blockade of Iraq in the Gulf [ see p. 37694 ] , stating that Argentina had " rejoined the international community after many years of frustration and isolation that led the country to a critical situation " . |
| 18 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 19 | The engineering capability and traffic demands meant that an airfield was many years off — the float-equipped ‘ bush ’ aircraft was to have many years of sovereignty in Ontario . |
| 20 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 21 | This division and those between bigger and smaller clubs , and between east Wales and West Wales , are among the most damaging bequests of a history whose many years of glory occurred despite ( certainly not because of ) native parochialism , introspection and even sometimes indolence . |
| 22 | Their knowledge ( rules , facts and ideas ) has been acquired by study , investigation , observation and experience over many years of work in a particular domain , i.e. maintenance of a certain type of aircraft system/equipment . |
| 23 | His many years of work on and publication of pottery included the large collections from Silchester ( 1916 ) , Colchester ( 1930 ) , Carlisle ( 1917 ) and York ( 1908–11 ) , and from the excavations at Hengistbury Head ( Bushe-Fox , 1915 ) , the Ospringe Cemetery ( Whiting , Hawley and May , 1931 ) , Swarling ( Bushe-Fox , 1925 ) , Richborough ( Bushe-Fox , 1926 , 1928 , 1932 ) , Warrington ( May , 1904 ) and Templebrough ( May , 1922 ) . |
| 24 | However these also will require many years of development . |
| 25 | This ability was evident in his many years of A.R.C . |
| 26 | Keratitis , oculomotor disturbances , haemorrhagic retinopathy , and disc oedema have been reported , generally as isolated cases after many years of chlorambucil use . |
| 27 | The principles of good eating have arisen from many years of evidence and research . |
| 28 | For she had learnt during many years of marriage that faking a knock-out early on saved you 12 punishing rounds which you lost on points . |
| 29 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 30 | After many years of indecision , in December 1981 BR obtained approval for the electrification of the main line from Colchester to Ipswich and Norwich and also the Harwich branch . |