Example sentences of "[prep] many " in BNC.
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| 31 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 32 | Similarly the human being can attain happiness , but it will only be after many years that this fruit of the human mind will be tasted . |
| 33 | A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) . |
| 34 | Sergeant Golding had unfortunately , after many years police service , blotted his copybook in about 1910 , for when called to the scene of a local murder , he allowed the victim 's mother , a widow , to clean up the room before detectives arrived . |
| 35 | After many problems the Science and Art Institute opened on Monday 16 May 1864 . |
| 36 | Welfare and Education advice is available through the Union Officer and an elected Site Committee looks after many of the day-to-day decisions . |
| 37 | Welfare and Education advice is available through the Union Officer and an elected Site Committee looks after many of the day-to-day decisions . |
| 38 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 39 | Surely , if there really were a knowable pre-life creator , such would have long since become truly known to humanity , and would not have remained a subject of speculation after many thousands of years . |
| 40 | After many years , the prize was changed to a piece of silver , to be purchased by the Captain demitting office . |
| 41 | So , after many years of religious selection pressure working against the pure-black cat , there was now the added pressure of medical quackery . |
| 42 | Contrary to expectations , immersion in water results in very high prolonged uptake , without equilibrium after many years . |
| 43 | A mother penguin can find her very own youngster in a colony of several thousand , even after many days at sea , having left the young one to mill around on the ice with thousand of others which to us appear to be identical . |
| 44 | After many conversations , it is my feeling that we need better communication between the youth of Shropshire and the youth of the rest of the diocese . |
| 45 | After many trials with cross-spars and bridles , the Geisha flew well enough to win Joel a trip to Japan ! |
| 46 | After many months of various Balkan wars , Misha Glenny ( ‘ Bosnia means more bad news for Balkans ’ , 17 April ) is trying hard to apportion the blame ‘ even-handedly ’ and blur the difference between villains and victims . |
| 47 | After many discussions , shaping and reshaping the deal , much to my surprise they said ‘ yes ’ . ’ |
| 48 | After many years without lifting a paint brush , I am now ‘ into art ’ as my family call it ! |
| 49 | Nine laps later , he was thirteenth ; at the halfway mark , eighth ; seventh came when Niki Lauda went off spectacularly ; sixth when he overtook a faltering Mike Hailwood ; fifth when on lap fifty-five he overtook Reutemann after many laps of cat and mouse with the Argentine , never an easy man to get by ; fourth , his finishing position , when his team-mate François Cevert gallantly waved him by . |
| 50 | To fit myself for this level of teaching after many years away I did an M.Phil . |
| 51 | After many years , when children no longer need the same amount of time and attention from their parents , many find that their lives are no longer full of interesting social contacts and experiences . |
| 52 | Youngsters suffer headaches , fatigue and lose the ability to socially interact after many hours playing the solitary games . |
| 53 | The present incumbent was a retired Yorkshire miner and after many thanks and good wishes for the festive season the ensemble played themselves out with a lively rendering of ‘ Ilkley Moor ’ . |
| 54 | After many years of male dominance in the dance music industry , you have finally helped to break down one of the biggest barriers and prejudices . |
| 55 | After many thoughtful considerations , which delayed things somewhat , I telephoned Merril Wayne in the USA only to hear that he had sold the aircraft 20 minutes earlier ! |
| 56 | When the main waterproofing coating starts to wear away — very quickly or after many years depending on use and care , you can try to reproof it . |
| 57 | After many straight miles , the road curves inland to round Applecross Bay , a welcome sight well endowed with trees and , after passing a picnic place , turns into the village of Applecross , a friendly place with no obvious awareness of its extreme isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 58 | After many years of modest living and involvement in tennis Higueras has found new fame . |
| 59 | These are my conclusions now : I never set out to do this when I was twenty or fifteen , but I realise , after many years , that this was fundamentally what I was aiming to do . |
| 60 | Only after many years of mental torment did some Calvinists achieve a certainty of conviction about their elect status , which helped them to cope with , and sometimes to change , the threatening and disturbing world that surrounded them . |