Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 5 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 6 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 7 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 8 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 9 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 10 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 11 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 20 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 21 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 22 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 23 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 24 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 25 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 26 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 27 | As a result , artists feel that if they have parted company with their manager after three years it is unfair if their previous manager continues to take commission on album sales for another seven years . |
| 28 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 29 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 30 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |