Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] year [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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1 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
2 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
3 | Even as a boy Haile Selassie had believed in his imperial destiny ; for nearly twenty years he had survived conspiracies , wars and revolutions , and his resolution had never faltered . |
4 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
5 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
6 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
7 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |