Example sentences of "[num] years she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 2 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 3 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 4 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 5 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 6 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 7 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 8 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 9 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 10 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 11 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 12 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 13 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 14 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 15 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 16 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 17 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 18 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 19 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 20 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 21 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 22 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |
| 23 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 24 | Despite Mrs Agathangelou 's determination to remain English , the twenty-three years she had spent in Greece had left their mark . |
| 25 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 26 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 27 | He had formed her life , as for the last twelve years she had lived it , formed her every day by the acts of one extraordinary night . |
| 28 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 29 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 30 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |