Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] for [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 2 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 3 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 4 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 5 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 6 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |