Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 2 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 3 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 4 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 5 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 6 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 7 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 8 | After seven years she says coping with them STILL is n't getting any easier . |
| 9 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 10 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 11 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 12 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 13 | During these years she made her journeys in record time . |
| 14 | During these years she also held the British record for endurance swimming , extending it from 26 hrs. in January 1930 to 44 hrs. 30 min. by the end of the year , then to 45 hrs. in 1931 , and finally to 46 hrs. in 1932 . |
| 15 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 16 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 17 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 18 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 19 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 20 | For many years she appeared on the list of the world 's best-dressed women , and is a frequent visitor to London . |
| 21 | For many years she helped Raine and her late husband , Earl Spencer , father of the Princess of Wales , run Althorp in Northamptonshire — and became a trusted friend . |
| 22 | For many years she helped Raine and her late husband , Earl Spencer , father of the Princess of Wales , run Althorp in Northamptonshire — and became a trusted friend . |
| 23 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 24 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 25 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 26 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 27 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 28 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 29 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 30 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |