Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Vito Mazzotta has lived in Swindon for 40 years . |
| 4 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , of Weardale Drive , Woodhouse Close , Bishop Auckland , clung hold of her sister Joan Whalen for 25 minutes after neighbours alerted the ambulance service that Mrs Whalen had plunged from the window of her house . |
| 5 | Q : So you stayed happily married to Bernard for fifteen years ? |
| 6 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Home of the Duncombes for 300 years ; 60 years a school ; now restored to superb family home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 13 | Cos Pam 's son 's going to Germany for four years tomorrow . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Soon afterwards , Brian , in the middle of his national Service , was sent to Germany for six months . |
| 16 | Traditionally we go to Germany for sevens tournaments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By November of that year Henry the Lion had been defeated and banished from Germany for three years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 22 | A man has been admitted to hospital after sitting in his Saab for five hours with the motor running and a hose connected to the exhaust . |
| 23 | The employees worked at Fulham for three weeks but were dissatisfied with the conditions there . |
| 24 | As a spotty student , I worked in a large hotel in Fort William for four months , and grew extremely fond of it . |
| 25 | Crawford travelled to San Francisco for two days with director Richard Lester to see a screening of How I Won the War . |
| 26 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Peter Kavanagh supported Patrick for 40 years . |
| 29 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 30 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |