Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 2 | Police Chief Daryl F. Gates retired on June 28 after serving for 14 years as head of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) . |
| 3 | Dr. Charles Edward Prior retired in the summer of 1900 after serving for forty-five years as medical officer to the workhouse . |
| 4 | A COUPLE were celebrating their new home today after waiting for 42 years . |
| 5 | A COUPLE were celebrating their new home today after waiting for 42 years . |
| 6 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 7 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 8 | They were surprised to learn that he was retiring after working for fifty-one years ! |
| 9 | THE end of April saw the retirement of from Crediton , after working for 14 years as a packer . |
| 10 | After working for two years with textile computer specialists in Macclesfield , Gaynor Bower rejoined Sekers Fabrics in February as Weave Co-ordinator . |
| 11 | After working for some years in the hectic , fast-moving world of City finance , she now understood far more clearly the pressures and compulsive need to succeed that characterised most leading businessmen . |
| 12 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 13 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 14 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 15 | While it is quite true that , with exceptional care , a polythene liner is capable of lasting for 10 years or more , it is more likely that it will perish within three , the area between the water surface and ground level being bleached by the sun , cracking and falling away . |
| 16 | An arch of stones , for instance , is a stable structure capable of standing for many years even if there is no cement to bind it . |
| 17 | Even the local vicar was n't immune , the Rev. Bartley Trimble who was vicar of Halling for many years was known as " Baggy " . |
| 18 | Ann-Marie was given three years ' supervision and and banned from driving for five years . |
| 19 | Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years . |
| 20 | Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years . |
| 21 | Alexander Ballantine , 51 , who was found guilty of driving dangerously by a jury after a trial at Dingwall Sheriff Court last month , was also banned from driving for five years . |
| 22 | Judge Tyrer jailed Patel , of Finchley , for 20 months for causing death by reckless driving , which he admitted , and disqualified him from driving for five years . |
| 23 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 24 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 25 | Judge Julian Hall sentenced Hayton to three months imprisonment and banned him from driving for four years . |
| 26 | A FRENCH trucker was banned from driving for two years yesterday after after he was caught nearly four times over the drink drive limit . |
| 27 | And yesterday he was banned from driving for two years and fined £900 . |
| 28 | I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights . |
| 29 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 30 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |