Example sentences of "for the [adj] four years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 3 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 4 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 5 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the next four years he was symptom free only while on elemental diet despite at least 12 week trials of prednisolone , azathioprine , and methotrexate . |