Example sentences of "and [prep] [num] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 2 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 3 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 4 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 5 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 8 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 9 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 10 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 11 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 12 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 13 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |