Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [pron] " 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 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 7 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 8 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 9 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 10 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 11 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 12 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 13 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After fifty years there were 143 of them , responsible for the upkeep of 3,400 miles of roadway from the tolls parliament allowed them to levy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 23 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 24 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 27 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 28 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After 10 years nothing had happened , so in 1968 the Institute of Trademarks Agents called for urgent action . |