Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 2 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 3 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 4 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 5 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 6 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 7 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 8 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 9 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 10 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 11 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 12 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 13 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 14 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 15 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 16 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 17 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 18 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 19 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 20 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 21 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 22 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 23 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 24 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 25 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 26 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 27 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 28 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 29 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |
| 30 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |