Example sentences of "[num] year of [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 2 | Three thousand years of Chinese history and a hundred and fifty years of attachment to Britain has produced an electrifying , vividly coloured , if not at times garish , super-city of crowded streets , bustling eateries , high rise towers and myriadic shopping opportunities . |
| 3 | None of these figures is very different from the earlier stages of weathering , and it would seem that even after more than three years of exposure to weathering , the damage and/or loss of bone is still very small . |
| 4 | After 18 years of marriage to Lord Snowdon the couple agreed to a divorce in May 1978 after living separate lives for two years . |
| 5 | The RAF 's robust and reliable workhorse. 25 years of service to Queen and Country . |
| 6 | At a party to celebrate ten years of marriage to Clem , would you believe ? |
| 7 | We are deeply grateful for his 40 years of service to Johnson Matthey . |
| 8 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 9 | After thirty years of marriage to Tom McBride , Beryl McBride sounded more Irish than did her husband . |