Example sentences of "[noun] for a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 3 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 4 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 5 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 6 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 7 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 8 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 9 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 10 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 11 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 12 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 13 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 14 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 15 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 16 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 17 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 18 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 19 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 20 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 21 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 22 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 23 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 24 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 25 | Carruthers was appointed as District Geologist in charge and Dinham was also posted there from Scotland for a few years . |
| 26 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 27 | They used the mill for silk manufacture for a few years but by 1860 ownership had passed to Samuel Long , who was also running Charfield Mills . |
| 28 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 29 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 30 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |