Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 2 | Some vignerons will tell you that a cask lasts only for four years . |
| 3 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 4 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 5 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 6 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 7 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 8 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 9 | Mathiesen et al found a difference in urinary albumin excretion between captopril and no antihypertensive treatment by measuring blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion every four months in 44 patients similar to ours , but this was true only after four years of follow up . |
| 10 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 11 | Senior registrar appointment committees assume that accreditation is necessary before someone is appointed to a consultant post and that accreditation will be granted only after four years of higher training ( eight years for a doctor training half time under the PM(79)3 scheme ) . |
| 12 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 13 | However , they were believed not only to be resisting pressures to bring this date forward , but also to be insisting on a more protracted period , perhaps of four years , for the subsequent completion of the unification of ministries and other institutions . |
| 14 | ‘ Only by four years , ’ Harry protested . |
| 15 | Mm , I 've been here just on four years now . |
| 16 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 17 | Laurencekirk has another of those long , long streets ; home for four years and by then long gone , of Thomas Ruddiman the grammarian , mentioned by Boswell and admired by Johnson . |
| 18 | Steel-Maitland had been appointed Party Chairman in 1911 to a post " of cabinet rank " , and had served loyally for four years without pay or reward . |
| 19 | A small number were reviewed earlier , usually after four years . |
| 20 | THE ELECTION CONTEXT : ONCE IN FOUR YEARS |
| 21 | In order to enslave the English people , we might argue , it is only necessary to enslave them at election time : once in four years Is enough . |
| 22 | ONCE IN FOUR YEARS : THE FINDINGS |
| 23 | Then it began to sweep slowly over her in the deprecating manner that Jessamy remembered so clearly from four years ago . |
| 24 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 25 | Because his sentences run concurrently he could be free in two years and will almost certainly be free in a little over four years . |
| 26 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 27 | Not that Alice cared about warmth , not even after four years in her mother 's warm house . |
| 28 | Even after four years , they could make every nerve in her body sing with pure jealousy . |
| 29 | Kofi , her husband , has done well in four years of selling plastic shoes on the river . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the authority of an ecumenical Council , more representative of the whole world than any previous Council , working responsibly and prayerfully across four years with all the support it could get from the ablest theologians , is clearly in human and ecclesial terms as considerable as can be . |