Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 2 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 3 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 4 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 5 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 8 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 9 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 10 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 11 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 12 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 13 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 14 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 15 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 16 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 17 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 18 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 19 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 20 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 21 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 22 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 23 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 24 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 25 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 26 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 27 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 28 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 29 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 30 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |