Example sentences of "[verb] up for [adj] year [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them .
2 OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night .
3 OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night .
4 Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism .
5 Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend .
6 He signed up for three years with an option
7 It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment .
8 It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer .
9 Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man .
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