Example sentences of "[adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 2 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 3 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 4 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 5 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 6 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 7 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 8 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 9 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 10 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 11 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 12 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 13 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 14 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 15 | He has strong interests in education , and management training and much experience of negotiating with government , something that we all need in N C V O. For some years he 's been a member of the Council for Voluntary Service Overseas . |
| 16 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |
| 17 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 18 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 19 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 20 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 21 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 22 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 23 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 24 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 25 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 26 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 27 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 28 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 29 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 30 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |