Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 2 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 3 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 4 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 6 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 7 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 8 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 9 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 10 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 11 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 12 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 13 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 14 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 15 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 16 | For 12 days we enjoyed pulses , rice , vegetables , fish and fruit ; we never felt hungry and every meal was a joy . |
| 17 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 18 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 19 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 20 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
| 21 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 22 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 23 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 24 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 25 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 26 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 27 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 28 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 29 | After 32 years I continue to enjoy my Medau by doing three classes a week — with Myrtle Mott at Plumstead , with Elsie Streek at Alderwood School and with Bridget at Sidcup and I must say that this form of movement has given me a great deal of pleasure so LONG LIVE MEDAU . |
| 30 | Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb . |