Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 2 | Vito Mazzotta has lived in Swindon for 40 years . |
| 3 | Q : So you stayed happily married to Bernard for fifteen years ? |
| 4 | They , like us , were shifty-eyed ; there had been no rain in Botswana for four years and the lions of the Kalahari were getting hungry . |
| 5 | Having councilled with the Nez Perce for two years , in July 1818 , he re-established a fort in their name in the region of the Cayuse and Walla Walla Indians . |
| 6 | Home of the Duncombes for 300 years ; 60 years a school ; now restored to superb family home . |
| 7 | In 1985 the Welsh Office agreed to fund a Special Needs Liaison Officer for Wales PPA for three years to support the referral schemes in the counties . |
| 8 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 9 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 10 | Cos Pam 's son 's going to Germany for four years tomorrow . |
| 11 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 12 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 13 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 14 | By November of that year Henry the Lion had been defeated and banished from Germany for three years . |
| 15 | Alan Capper said there were no other parties involved and Anneka , who has been married to the theatre producer Nick Allott for five years , hoped the separation will not be permanent . |
| 16 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
| 17 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |
| 18 | However all these composers are overshadowed in historical importance by a Flemish master of all-round achievement , Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490–1562 ) , pupil of Mouton in Paris , who served the court of Ferrara for several years from 1522 but went to Venice as magister cappellae at St. Mark 's in 1527 and spent the rest of his life there . |
| 19 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 20 | ‘ Peter Kavanagh supported Patrick for 40 years . |
| 21 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 22 | We found tragic proof of this on the most bitter 1 March for many years . |
| 23 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
| 24 | But it also signals the end of an ancient rite rejoicing in human warmth and in the sun 's return.Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 25 | Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 26 | Such a lifespan is not uncommon for a captive tortoise , the oldest one recorded being a male , which lived on Mauritius for 152 years . |
| 27 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |
| 28 | Liberal MP for Hull for twenty-five years , was elevated to the peerage in 1904 as first Baron Nunburnholme . |
| 29 | Exiled in Venezuela for seven years , he returned to join a military-civilian junta in March 1980 [ see p. 30323 ] formed in October 1979 as a result of the threat of full-scale civil war . |
| 30 | In its first loan to Venezuela for 25 years , the World Bank on June 15 agreed a sum of $755,000,000 , 25 per cent of which would be set aside for debt reduction , the rest for structural programmes and in support of economic reforms . |