Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 2 | M. Vial , for some years Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Royal School of Lyons , and of Comparative Anatomy at Montpellier , a gentleman well-known for his anatomical skill and knowledge in every part of this Art , is appointed Professor to the College ’ . |
| 3 | Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years . |
| 4 | 5–2 Another gift was recorded ; that of Mrs and Miss McTavish , widow and daughter , now residing in Mull , of the late Rev. Mr McTavish for many years minister at Kildalton . |
| 5 | In that country for many years organisation at the social , cultural and political level was founded upon a system of ideological blocs . |
| 6 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 7 | Aunt Tossie , for many years mistress of Deer Forest , understood very well how girls must have their chatter after a ball . |
| 8 | They had three daughters and one son , Matthew , who followed his father 's profession and was for many years superintendent of the LNER locomotive depot at Neasden , London . |
| 9 | , Margaret Caroline ( 1861–1944 ) , general secretary of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , was born 16 October 1861 in Marylebone , London , the youngest of seven children and only daughter of the Revd John Llewelyn Davies , a Christian Socialist , for many years rector of Christ Church , Marylebone , London , and later of Kirkby Lonsdale , Lancashire , and his wife Mary , daughter of Sir Charles John Crompton [ q.v. ] , justice of the Queen 's Bench . |
| 10 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 11 | He determined the fossils that were the key to the rock succession in the Southern Uplands , was for many years palaeontologist to the Scottish branch of the Geological Survey , and late in life wrote an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea , a group that had fascinated him since he had searched rock pools for crabs with his father . |
| 12 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 13 | A 43 year old man with several years history of alcohol abuse and with chronic pancreatitis confirmed at endoscopic retrograde pancreatography presented in October 1990 for recrudescent epigastralgia . |
| 14 | In the meantime , Mike Harris will miss out on this years batch of heather honey . |