Example sentences of "[prep] some years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 2 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 3 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 4 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 5 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 6 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 7 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 8 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |