Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As TODAY revealed yesterday , there had been evidence that for over four years he rented a luxury apartment only 11 miles from their bungalow at Caterham , Surrey . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 4 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 5 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 6 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |