Example sentences of "[prep] seven years " in BNC.
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1 | For the moment , high interest rates have eroded people 's economic confidence in the future but the trends in savings and consumer spending scarcely suggest a lack of economic buoyancy after seven years of real income growth . |
2 | Now after seven years separation I have come to see my family . |
3 | Heynckes had joined Bayern in 1987 after seven years as manager of Borussia , and led the Bavarian club to two Bundesliga titles . |
4 | Ingress of water into a 90/110 is a problem which Land Rover have not yet totally cured after seven years . |
5 | A similar structure may be discerned in Del Giudice 's novels ( which tend to the episodic ) , but is decisive in another important book of the mid-1980s , Gianni Celati 's Narratori delle pianure ( Story-tellers of the plains 1985 ) , a book with which Celati returned to writing after seven years of ‘ silence ’ and critical and theoretical reflection . |
6 | Here I can sketch only a part of that answer — although , as might be expected after seven years , I can also now take it a little further . |
7 | The treaty , to be known as the Cartagena Convention after the city where it will be signed , comes after seven years of negotiations . |
8 | The first-born child , after seven years of marriage — an arranged marriage through the good offices of a shadchan ( matchmaker ) … was Carl in 1906 . |
9 | In 1649 , after seven years of bloody civil war , King Charles I was executed . |
10 | After seven years the insect was blown into the Great Hall of Inver Cechmaine and was accidentally swallowed by the wife of that nobleman ; she was reborn nine months later , again given the name Etain and growing to be an exquisitely beautiful woman . |
11 | DETERMINED Gary Envis is swapping his toolmaker 's overalls for a barrister 's wig and gown after seven years of night classes and exams . |
12 | They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday . |
13 | Nine years ago , after seven years of development by a French biochemist , lonithermie was launched in Britain . |
14 | Charlton will be hoping their next home game , back at The Valley after seven years away , will revitalise their fading promotion challenge . |
15 | What still seems most important to me , after seven years , is still the callers and the way that we do or do n't service their needs . |
16 | Father Richard Yeo , a Benedictine monk whose parish covers a large area of north Suffolk and south Norfolk is leaving Bungay after seven years . |
17 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
18 | He replaces film producer David Putnam who is standing down after seven years in the position . |
19 | After the second year , the allowance is reduced by one-sixth and that figure is deducted from the allowance each year , so that it reaches zero after seven years . |
20 | Other nominees are Ross Cooper , who helped Romania during the World Cup , Peter Thorburn , after seven years with North Harbour , and the wondrous Wellington duo of Earl Kirton and Andy Leslie . |
21 | After seven years as a battlefield it was now an unearthly , hellish landscape . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | After seven years as secretary in Convocation Office , Mrs. Judith Nelson has moved on to another post within the University . |
24 | According to an old story the Devil , intending to win the souls of the Basques , tried to learn their language , but after seven years of unremitting study had mastered only three words . |
25 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
26 | Could it really be her father , gripping her in his arms after seven years ? |
27 | After seven years of bringing up two children , now aged ten and nine , she took refresher nursing courses and eventually landed a much coveted job as a school nurse . |
28 | In March 1958 , after seven years of marriage , the Shah and Queen Soraya were divorced , largely because of their inability to have a child together . |
29 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
30 | At the same time , offering low rents to those who would agree to build in stone , he laid out a town which after seven years had a population of 25,000 , served by a free port . |