Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 2 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 4 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 5 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 6 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 7 | After fifteen years he was still pursuing his feud against his master-mason , unwilling to let even his bones rest . |
| 8 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 9 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 10 | After two years he was back heading Brigade S , a swing pop band who borrowed much from Kid Creole And The Coconuts . |
| 11 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 12 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 13 | For 45 years it was the home of the Wiltshire historian Canon Jackson . |
| 14 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 15 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 16 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 17 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 18 | During these years he was elected FRIBA ( 1850 ) , freeman of the City of London ( 1851 ) , member of the Company of Fishmongers ( 1852 ) , and associate of the Society of Civil Engineers ( 1858 ) . |
| 19 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 20 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 21 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 22 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 23 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 24 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 25 | For many years I was a governor of Port Slade School and Comprehensive College and I thought that was a very impressive school , as I am sure you would agree . |
| 26 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 27 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 28 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 29 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 30 | For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858–9 was chief magistrate . |