Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 2 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 3 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 4 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 5 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 7 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |