Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 2 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 3 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 4 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 5 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 6 | During this transition , the retirement age was brought down by five years , staffing numbers were reduced , the unprofitable office in Edinburgh was closed , procedures were modified and attitudes changed , a research department was established , some shuffling of the partners took place , and the youngest of them , Nigel Humphreys , was appointed Managing Director . |
| 7 | The death in 1702 of the Stadtholder William III ( King William III of England ) who left no son to succeed him , was followed by over forty years of republican rule . |
| 8 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 9 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |