Example sentences of "[noun] and for [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
2 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
3 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
4 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
5 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
6 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
7 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |