Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am here for one year . |
| 2 | After I was there for six years |
| 3 | I was there for two years . |
| 4 | I was there for twenty years . |
| 5 | I was there for twenty years . |
| 6 | If we work together then , perhaps , you will be here for a few months , if we fight then you are here for fourteen years ’ |
| 7 | The you said , that you were away for six years . |
| 8 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 9 | And would you just would you do they food all the time that you were there for twenty years ? |
| 10 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 11 | So they 're there for three years ? |
| 12 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 13 | ‘ Please , Hummy , it 's only for one year . |
| 14 | ‘ Gone back to her mother in Sardinia with the children — he 's in for eight years . ’ |
| 15 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 16 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 17 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 18 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 19 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |