Example sentences of "[noun] for [adj] years but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 2 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 3 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 4 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 5 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 6 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 7 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 8 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 9 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 10 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 11 | The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , said he would have put Casabona behind bars for two years but he had already served an equivalent term on remand . |
| 12 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |