Example sentences of "many year of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The new streamlined ‘ Action Team ’ at L.D.P. in Leamington Spa , headed by Tony Fallon , Sales Manager with ( from right ) , Anna Harris , Sales Office Supervisor who has many years of experience with L.D.P. ; Natalie Anstey with the all round versatility of youth ; Cynthia Clark and Jan McGrath having strong accountancy/customer liaison skills and Cora Lake with a sales/marketing background . |
| 11 | It also has access to the many years of experience on domestic credit underwriting in Holland from its parent company . |
| 12 | Beryl Chapman , the author , has written a small workbook based on many years of experience for a variety of people to use , not as a large reference book . |
| 13 | John and Liz Soars each have many years of experience as teachers and teacher-trainers in the UK and abroad . |
| 14 | But of course it should be noted that most people are conditioned by many years of experience in which traders have tended to gloss over interest rates . |
| 15 | J. Rothschild Partnership envelops 400 individual sales professionals with many years of experience in the industry and a large number of extremely high achievers . |
| 16 | Stewart has many years of experience in both graphic and carpet design , gained as the Senior Designer in the London offices of Stoddard Mercia , and previously as the London Contract Designer with B.M.K. |
| 17 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 18 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 19 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 20 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 21 | I am not like the odious Du Camp , who would proudly claim many years of friendship with Gustave , but would always deny him genius . |
| 22 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 23 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 24 | Sylvester 's handsome monograph , the fruit of many years of rumination on the subject of Magritte 's art , is an essay of appreciation and interpretation . |
| 25 | Speaking of whom , today represents a great occasion for both my parents , being the culmination of many years of planning of a different sort . |
| 26 | However , in many years of examination of ancient jewellery , cadmium has never been found in pieces from excavation , or from otherwise unimpeachable sources , but only in pieces that were suspect on other grounds . |
| 27 | After many years of use by the local community , with regular services continuing into the early 1970s , the chapel was declared redundant in 1975 . |