Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 2 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 3 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 4 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 5 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 6 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 7 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 8 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 9 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 10 | American Secretary of State Warren Christopher told delegates from more than 100 countries the largest human rights gathering for 25 years that the US rejected calls from some Asian and Middle East states for feebler standards . |
| 11 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 12 | Some people think that persevering for 13 years with the policy of playing 11 right wingers could be a mistake . |
| 13 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 14 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
| 15 | He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years . |
| 16 | Ann-Marie was given three years ' supervision and and banned from driving for five years . |
| 17 | Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years . |
| 18 | Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years . |
| 19 | Alexander Ballantine , 51 , who was found guilty of driving dangerously by a jury after a trial at Dingwall Sheriff Court last month , was also banned from driving for five years . |
| 20 | Judge Tyrer jailed Patel , of Finchley , for 20 months for causing death by reckless driving , which he admitted , and disqualified him from driving for five years . |
| 21 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 22 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 23 | Judge Julian Hall sentenced Hayton to three months imprisonment and banned him from driving for four years . |
| 24 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 25 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 26 | A FRENCH trucker was banned from driving for two years yesterday after after he was caught nearly four times over the drink drive limit . |
| 27 | And yesterday he was banned from driving for two years and fined £900 . |
| 28 | I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights . |
| 29 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 30 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |