Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 2 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 3 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 4 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 5 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 6 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 7 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 8 | Graduate job prospects ‘ worst for 60 years . ’ |
| 9 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 10 | They do not occur naturally , but were produced commercially for 50 years , beginning in 1929 . |
| 11 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 12 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 13 | D' you know , the tree has n't flowered properly for six years . |
| 14 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 15 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 16 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 17 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 18 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
| 19 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 20 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 21 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 22 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 23 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 24 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 25 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 26 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 27 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 28 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 29 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 30 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |