Example sentences of "[num] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 2 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 3 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 4 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 5 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 6 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 7 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 8 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 9 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 10 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 11 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 12 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 13 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 14 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 15 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 16 | Over the last three years she 's developed a hardness that Mother never had . |
| 17 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 18 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 19 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 20 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 21 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 22 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 23 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 24 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 25 | Inside just 4 years she 's made an impact that she finds hard to believe . |
| 26 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 27 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 28 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 29 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 30 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |