Example sentences of "[adj] [num] years she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 2 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 7 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 10 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 11 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 12 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |