Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 2 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 3 | Her father , Alic Denning worked as a docker for fifty one years . |
| 4 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 5 | FOR 70 elegant years , the House of Hartnell ruled British fashion . |
| 6 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 7 | The teaching profession has recently made a beginning in this direction , allowing one salary increment for each three years of child rearing . |
| 8 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 9 | We 've kept her for bloody eighteen years ! |
| 10 | The grave remained thus for eight hundred years until visited by the traveller and writer Hals during the reign of Charles II . |
| 11 | Bath , Glastonbury , Bristol and Berkeley Castle ( home of the Berkeley family for eight hundred years ) all make excellent day trips . |
| 12 | GOR A Ability to live for eight hundred years |
| 13 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 14 | I 've been single again for eight long years . ’ |
| 15 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 16 | I stayed for eight more years , for the last two as a teacher . |
| 17 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 18 | This latter provision effectively requires rate precepts to be made or issued for complete financial years . |
| 19 | chair for that five years and , there were constantly people parking on the pavements , which necessitate you |
| 20 | They 've done this for that three years now and they |
| 21 | They have come around to accepting them , but on the dubious grounds that the palaeontological evidence now proves that the earliest hominids arose in Africa about 5–6 million years ago and that Ramapithecus was not a hominid . |
| 22 | If children already present at marriage , guarantee can be extended for further 10 years . |
| 23 | Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years . |
| 24 | With this in mind the Canadian Rugby Union has confirmed that Ian Birtwell 's appointment as national coach will be extended for another four years , placing him in firm control of the key decisions relating to player selection as he looks ahead to 1995 . |
| 25 | The solution lies within the Tory Party , which will remain in power for another four years and so has a duty to revive and spur the nation towards the next millenium . |
| 26 | Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left . |
| 27 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 28 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 29 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 30 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |