Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 2 | The woman driver of the hired van who 's British but has ben living in france for eleven years had apparently driven a mile on the wrong side of the road . |
| 3 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 4 | To many members of the Church of England , which for fifty years had been strongly influenced by Calvinism , Laud seemed to be introducing innovations , the most offensive of which was the doctrine that bishops derived their authority from God . |
| 5 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 6 | Biggest police shake-up for 30 years unveiled by Clarke |
| 7 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 8 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 9 | Suppose manufacturer A has for some years produced a razor which will not normally cut the user unless it is slid sideways across the skin . |
| 10 | In 1870 Knowles , who for some years had practised journalism anonymously , was appointed editor of the Contemporary Review , which he made into a highly influential periodical while still continuing his architectural practice . |
| 11 | In Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , the plaintiff , although believing that he was not liable , for some years paid fees under protest for permission to recut and repaint tombstones in a cemetery . |
| 12 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 13 | Intended for the priesthood , Diderot lost his faith and for some years scraped a living as a tutor , hack journalist and translator . |
| 14 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 15 | Looking back after forty-five years had elapsed , he had the following to say about the ‘ Originals ’ of L Detachment . |
| 16 | The three women who were still alive after 10 years had all been in the therapy group . |
| 17 | Isambard himself went to Paris to study at the age of fourteen , and after three years returned to join his father 's firm . |
| 18 | South Africa 's readmission after 21 years followed a letter from the IOC to Sam Ramsamy , the new president of the South African Olympic Committee and former leading campaigner for the isolation of South African sport , setting out conditions to break down racial barriers in sport . |
| 19 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 20 | THE DAY the Amateur Championship came back to Royal Portrush after 33 years dawned calm and still after torrential overnight rain . |
| 21 | Nigel Cornell , 27 , has returned to the North-East after several years spent working for the NHS in the Merseyside area . |
| 22 | I was placed in an express stream , specialized in arts subjects , after four years took nine subjects in the School Certificate , and then specialized still further to take English , history , and French for two years in the sixth form . |
| 23 | It shows that oral treatment with a standard dose of oestrogen not only prevents bone loss but after two years produced a significant improvement in bone density . |
| 24 | After two years spent coaching his home village club , the aptly named Furnace , Jenkins was back at Stradey Park in 1982 for a five-year apprenticeship as assistant coach to Alun Lewis . |
| 25 | A daughter of Bobby — one of the celebrated ‘ Brothers ’ — Aoife has recently returned after two years spent singing in Australia , and is sure to delight us with her songs , both traditional and contemporary . |
| 26 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 27 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 28 | At the same time , offering low rents to those who would agree to build in stone , he laid out a town which after seven years had a population of 25,000 , served by a free port . |
| 29 | Roy , above , who for six years played inept landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street , will star with actor Robert Powell in the musical at the Bristol Old Vic . |
| 30 | An Asian teacher who had taught at the school for six years stated : |