Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 6 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 7 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 8 | During these years he was elected FRIBA ( 1850 ) , freeman of the City of London ( 1851 ) , member of the Company of Fishmongers ( 1852 ) , and associate of the Society of Civil Engineers ( 1858 ) . |
| 9 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 10 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 11 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 12 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 13 | For many years he lived with his mother . |
| 14 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 15 | He moved to London , where for many years he regularly preached in a chapel in Bayswater . |
| 16 | For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858–9 was chief magistrate . |
| 17 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 18 | For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds . |
| 19 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 20 | One of the first to join the society was Vincent d'Indy , who became its secretary in 1876 ; indeed , for many years he was effectively its head . |
| 21 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 22 | For many years he edited the Cefn Chronicle and later worked for the North Wales Newspapers group . |
| 23 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 24 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 25 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 26 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 27 | In these years he often changed his address in the East End of London . |
| 28 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 29 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 30 | ‘ Alas , since many years he is no longer with us . ’ |