Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [num] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 2 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 3 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 4 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 5 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |