Example sentences of "[num] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker . |
| 2 | For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker . |
| 3 | For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts . |
| 4 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 5 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 6 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 7 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 8 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 9 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 10 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 11 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 12 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 13 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 14 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 15 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 16 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 17 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
| 18 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 19 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 20 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 22 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 23 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 24 | Six years he opening a small foundry at the back . |
| 25 | Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately . |
| 26 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 27 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 28 | Every 10 years he publishes a weighty tome about social life , the universe and everything , which then proceeds to sell by the bucket throughout the world . |
| 29 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 30 | For the past 7 years he 's attended Dean Hall Special School near Cinderford . |