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Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adj] year " in BNC.

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1	The artists with whom his gallery was closely involved are Andy Goldsworthy , Hamish Fulton , Roger Ackling and Ian Hamilton Finlay , whose Wild Hawthorne Press material he presented at the Fruitmarket when it briefly reopened for last year 's Edinburgh Festival .
2	He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year .
3	The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc .
4	I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel .
5	Trying to out-do the star-studded cast it assembled for last year 's Object World San Francisco , the Object Management Group has come up with Steve Jobs , NeXT Computer Inc chief executive ; Lee Reiswig , IBM Corp Personal Software Division president ; John Edwards , Novell Inc executive vice president ; Bud Tribble , NeXT co-founder and SunSoft Inc vice president User Systems ; Representative Edward Markey , chairman , the US House Telecommunication & Finance Committee ; Bo Hedfors , L M Ericsson Telefon AB chief technology officer ; Kurt Fischer , Pentagon director , Department of Defense Information and Elaine Bond , Chase Manhattan Bank vice-president .
6	I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee .
7	The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen .
8	When development of supporting technology for guidance and control is counted in , these ballistic missile defence programmes accounted for about $2900 billion last year with a little over $500 million budgeted for this year .
9	Miss Lloyd , 18 , shortlisted for next year 's British Young Riders ' Tournament , specialises in eventing .
10	They did for last year .
11	These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years .
12	We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 .
13	We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond .
14	And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave .
15	And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave .
16	In regression analyses that controlled for 10 year age group as a categoric variable the slope of the relation between log e albumin excretion rate and height was 0.005 cm ( -0.002 to 0.013 cm ) in the European men and 0.009 cm ( 0 to 0.019 cm ) in the south Asian men .