Example sentences of "[prep] several years " in BNC.
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| 1 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 2 | In 1939 , after several years of study , the Conservative government attempted to reorganize the rather inefficient operation of the two airlines and to encourage more competition . |
| 3 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 4 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 5 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 6 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 7 | The American scene should be a piece of cake for these lads after several years of sharing a camper and traversing huge chunks of arid land to play in one-day pro-ams that may net them a couple of hundred pounds . |
| 8 | As a teenager she toured America playing Topsy in a Yiddish version of Uncle Tom 's Cabin ; and after several years in rep at Philadelphia , in such plays as The Silver King , Medea and The Kreutzer Sonata , she spent three years in cabaret and variety . |
| 9 | Oleg Gordievsky , who defected in 15 after several years as an in-place MI6 agent , was head of the KGB mission in London and as such enjoyed a very privileged lifestyle both abroad and in Russia . |
| 10 | After several years under the wing of top English coach Geoff Dyson , he became Welsh national athletics coach in 1960 at the tender age of 30 . |
| 11 | Some of these extra students will be people who are entering after several years in employment , or after years spent bringing up a family ; others will be coming straight from secondary education . |
| 12 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 13 | Such an arrangement requires a high degree of trust and confidence between the parties involved , a situation , perhaps , reached after several years of trading . |
| 14 | One aspect is clear — South Africa 's coffers are empty after several years of isolation . |
| 15 | The book , which was published in 1986 and became a best-seller , was written with Americans Ken Smith , Michael Wilkes and Doug Kirby after several years of research . |
| 16 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 17 | Was he light-headed , despite his second stomach , after several years of abstinence ? |
| 18 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 19 | Even if recovery reduces the PSBR , few economists expect it to dip below £25 billion ( around 4% of GDP ) even after several years of growth . |
| 20 | Such was Midshipman Adam Ross , whom Keith after several years of effort finally pushed into commissioned rank . |
| 21 | The Nationwide Festival of Light ( NFoL ) developed largely as a result of the work of one person , Peter Hill , an evangelical Christian who , on returning to this country after several years abroad , was shocked to find explicit sexual material on open sale . |
| 22 | After several years of policy development , the RHA came to the conclusion that it should aim for the closure of all the six mental hospitals , rather than just two . |
| 23 | But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs . |
| 24 | In 1990 , after several years of enforced separation ( I was forbidden from leaving Russia for a quarter of a century ) , I went to see George Dionisovich in Athens . |
| 25 | This year saw a change of venue for Convocation 's Annual Dinner ; after several years of requests from the Students ' Union that the facilities at Castle Irwell be considered , it was agreed to accept the Students ' Union 's offer . |
| 26 | I have heard several attempts to justify this method of doing business but none which succeeds in avoiding the suspicion that this is a highly opportunistic — though by now , after several years , established — version of having your cake and eating it . |
| 27 | After several years , when they have grown to full size , they start to swim back to the rivers in order to spawn . |
| 28 | For example , after several years of operation within the Eastman Kodak Company , the estimated value of ideas harvested in one year alone was approximately $300 million ( over the lifetime of the idea ) while the cost of connecting the ideas through an OI network containing 19 offices was only 0.3% of the potential revenue ( Rosenfeld and Servo , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Sukarno was about to become the storm-centre of his country 's affairs after several years of standing above the battle . |
| 30 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |