Sentence examples for year of duty from inspiring English sources

And each year of duty past 20 increases their pension.

General Casey, whose institutional role as Army chief is to protect his force, has a goal to increase by 2012 a soldier's time at home, to two years at home for every year served, from the current one year for every year of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Has only missed 35 days during 25 years of duty on the police force.

In his four years of duty (1614 18) there he furthered the fortunes of the English East India Company.

The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend John Hall, told the BBC the service marked "60 years of duty done with a glad heart".

After four years of duty at the Admiralty, Dewar returned to sea in 1922.

After two years of duty, the brigade was inactivated on 16 October 1999 at Fort Riley, Kansas.

He was a professional soldier in the Greek Navy, having already completed 2 and a half years of duty in service.

He was a professional soldier in the Greek navy, having already completed two and a half years of duty in service.

Nineteen of the 34 men in Nicolls's first contingent died soon after their arrival, and only five of the original 47 Royal Marines who accompanied him to Fernando Po in 1829 survived two years of duty on the station.

Despite many battles to his name, over twenty-one years of duty, it would be shortly after the battle at Waterloo upon hearing of approximately 50,000 casualties dead or dying that he wept, saying "I hope to God I have fought my last battle".