Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 2 | Two March records , which were for 1972 , may have involved only one bird , as may two August records in 1973 . |
| 3 | The first Plan for Lothian based its casualty reduction targets on the latest available data which was for 1990 . |
| 4 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 5 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 6 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 7 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 8 | Now that one was for ten years |
| 9 | Well there was for six months . |
| 10 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 11 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 12 | I went to the agents and it was for two thousand Pounds . |
| 13 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 14 | ninety eight , I think it was for two dozen , what happen we did n't have much choice you could n't get the two dozen boxes |
| 15 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 16 | It was for three years only , but it was a promising stepping-stone to a proper appointment . |
| 17 | And it was for ten thousand pounds sterling . |
| 18 | He was for nine years Consultant Architect to Llandaff Cathedral until his retirement . |
| 19 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 20 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 21 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |