Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
| 2 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 3 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 4 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 5 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 7 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 8 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years . |
| 10 | Mine has served me well for many years . |
| 11 | Then I put him away for two years . |
| 12 | He only had a little bit , but they put him away for three years . |
| 13 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 14 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 15 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 16 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 17 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 18 | Because you will know in advance when you need the cash , you can use a 90-day-notice account or even tie it up for five years for a better return . |
| 19 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 20 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 21 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 22 | Normally , to become a permanent resident in the Bahamas under category I , an individual needs to invest a minimum of $500,000 and keep it there for 10 years ; this compares with the five years for an investor in Sandyport Marina . |
| 23 | You could n't spend sixteen thousand and leave it there for six years ! |
| 24 | He 's repeated his concern to us regularly for eight years eight years . |