Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 4 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 7 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After ten years I ‘ updated ’ to have weaving and a one-action lace carriage . |
| 10 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 11 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 12 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 13 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 14 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 15 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 16 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 17 | After seven years I came to the Law Society as Secretary-General . |
| 18 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 19 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 20 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 21 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 22 | For three years I played at will . |
| 23 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 24 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 25 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 26 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 27 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 28 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 29 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |