Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] for a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 3 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 4 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 5 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 6 | Living with his mother Kiefer stayed in Los Angeles for a few years before moving back to Bridgewater Canada . |
| 7 | Oswaldston 's going to be living off Walter Machin for a few years . ’ |