Example sentences of "[num] years since [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Liberal Democrats , Nick Harvey said : ‘ The UK has wasted the six years since passing the Channel Tunnel Act . |
| 2 | Only three years since starting swimming competitively , she has won 45 medals . |
| 3 | My feeling towards the pregnancy was one of absolute delight and excitement , but having worked 8 years since leaving school to get where I was it was a major concern to me that my work or my position within the firm should not suffer . |
| 4 | In the fifteen years since making A Story of Three Loves in Hollywood Moira had accomplished much : in films The Man Who Loved Redheads , Black Tights , and Peeping Tom ; on the stage A Midsummer Night 's Dream , I am a Camera , Man of Distinction , as well as a season with the Bristol Old Vic . |
| 5 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 6 | In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back . |
| 7 | Two years since publishing Succeeding in the 90s , the Society 's strategy plan for the decade , the economy has entered a deep recession , and more difficult and challenging times than could have been envisaged now face the whole profession . |
| 8 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Mr Ferguson , who has now guided United to three trophies in 5½ years since taking over from Ron Atkinson , thought United missed Robson less than Nottingham Forest missed Stuart Pearce . |
| 10 | Clare is one of several Nottingham graduates working at Caversham and possibly the only Nottingham graduate to have used here Serbo-Croat for the whole of the 20 years since graduating . |