Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 2 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 3 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 4 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 5 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 7 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 8 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 9 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 10 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 11 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 12 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126 degrees and each small bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 13 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 14 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 15 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 16 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 17 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 18 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 19 | All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined . |
| 20 | O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail . |
| 21 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 22 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 23 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 24 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 25 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 26 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 27 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 28 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 29 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 30 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |