Example sentences of "[coord] for [art] [num ord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad . |
| 2 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 3 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 4 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 5 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 6 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 7 | The company was formed in 1982 and for the last six years , under the name of Touring Europe , has been mainly involved in taking plays in English to the Continent of Europe . |
| 8 | Charly Herscovici , who formerly assisted Georgette Magritte and for the last six years has managed the painter 's copyright and droit morale , explained how this could have come about . |
| 9 | Incidentally , the 2nd Duke of Montrose ( 1712–1790 ) was also deaf , unable to speak , and for the last thirty years of his life from 1760 onwards , totally blind as well and needed an interpreter for even everyday communication with his wife . |
| 10 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 11 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
| 12 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 13 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 14 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 15 | SIDT 's initial start-up funding and training support came from the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific ( FSP ) and for the last four years , the UK Foundation ( FSP/UK ) , based in Edinburgh , has been raising money for SIDT throughout Europe . |
| 16 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 17 | John Mitchell was employed on the building of the Caledonian canal ; his diligence and skill were noticed by Thomas Telford [ q.v. ] and for the last eighteen years of his life he was principal inspector of the roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 18 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 19 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 20 | It 's an easy , efficient way to clear crop fields and for the last twenty years strict guide-lines were laid down to control it . |
| 21 | Well do you think that the City Council is spending in an irrational and unreasonable way , currently and for the last ten years ? |
| 22 | Rachel Sims ( Mrs Miller ) is still serving with the Metropolitan Police Force , and for the last few years had been at the rank of inspector , until recently holding the post of Staff Officer to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner in charge of the North West London . |
| 23 | It was normal for a boy to start at 45 at age 14 , and for the next four years his pay went up a shilling a year . |
| 24 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 25 | In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers . |
| 26 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 27 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 28 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 29 | As a result the German frontier was broken , and for the next two years the provinces of Germany and Gaul were plundered by the invaders . |
| 30 | In 1905 Hammerton was invited to join Harmsworth 's Amalgamated Press , then the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world , and for the next seventeen years his employer 's energetic and ‘ radium-like personality ’ , as described by Hammerton , provided him with the background to his life 's work . |