Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 4 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 5 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 6 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 7 | After seven years she says coping with them STILL is n't getting any easier . |
| 8 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 9 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 10 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 11 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 12 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 13 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 14 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 15 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 16 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 17 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 18 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 19 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 20 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 21 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 22 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 23 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 24 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 25 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 26 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 27 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 28 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 29 | Erm , you know she had this cancer seven years ago when she had her breast cancer and , had her breast taken off they 've now found it 's gone further in seven years she , you know , she was |
| 30 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |