Example sentences of "he for the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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1 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
2 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
3 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
4 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
5 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |