Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 2 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 3 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 4 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 6 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 7 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 8 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 9 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 10 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 11 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 12 | After fifteen thousand years they were very good at it ! |
| 13 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 14 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 15 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 16 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 17 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 18 | During those twenty years I have told the story to only one other person . |
| 19 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 20 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 21 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 22 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 23 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 24 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 25 | For twenty three years I lived in England , and with the exception of the Falklands Conflict , I have never felt an emotion for my country like the Americans experience for theirs . |
| 26 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 27 | For two thousand years we lived in darkness . |
| 28 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 29 | For two thousand years we have done that . |