Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the first thing is that the City Council is charged with the defence of common land that and Port Meadow is a piece of common land that 's been in the possession of the people of Oxford and Oxfordshire and of England for over a thousand years . |
| 2 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 3 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 4 | We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too . |
| 5 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |