Example sentences of "[det] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 2 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 3 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 4 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 5 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 6 | He has strong interests in education , and management training and much experience of negotiating with government , something that we all need in N C V O. For some years he 's been a member of the Council for Voluntary Service Overseas . |
| 7 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 17 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |
| 18 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 19 | In two and a half years she has won over 40 trophies and hundreds of rosettes so do n't despair , Kathy , keep an eye on the condition and just enjoy your horse . |
| 20 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 21 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 22 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 23 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 24 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 25 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 26 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 27 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 28 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 29 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 30 | During the past few years we have been almost suffocated under a pile of reminiscences . |