Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 2 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 3 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 4 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 5 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 6 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 7 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 8 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 9 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 10 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 11 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 12 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 13 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 14 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 15 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 16 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 17 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 18 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 19 | It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover . |
| 20 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 21 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 22 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 23 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 24 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 25 | Over the last three years she 's developed a hardness that Mother never had . |
| 26 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |