Example sentences of "and for [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 2 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |