Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 2 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 3 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 4 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 5 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 6 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 7 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 8 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 9 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 10 | Mothers and calves may remain together for many years , from 3–6 or even 8 years . |
| 11 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 12 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 13 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 14 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 15 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 16 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 17 | The Dean gazed affectionately at her : a tall , handsome woman whose company he 'd enjoyed immensely for thirty-five years . |
| 18 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 19 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 20 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 21 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |
| 22 | She stayed in work until she was 29 walking out for five years with her fiance , an engineer 's blacksmith who was himself a great reader , while they saved up to marry . |
| 23 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 24 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 25 | Obviously , there are others on the fringes of this group who have dropped out for 1-2 years ( an extra 13 firms ) but this leaves a large number who are at most transient players . |
| 26 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 27 | Numbers have dropped consistently for 60 years , and if that is the litmus-test of an archbishop 's success , then Archbishops Lang , Temple , Fisher , Ramsey and Coggan have also been failures . |
| 28 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 29 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |