Example sentences of "for [adj] years [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 2 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
| 3 | For many years now the relationship between the prison staff and the Home Office has been — at its very calmest — one of simmering discontent . |
| 4 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
| 5 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |
| 6 | The same fate will await any terms which restrict the ex-employee 's future employment prospects to any great extent ; for example , a term which states that a computer programmer can not work for computer software companies in the United Kingdom for five years following the termination of his employment . |