Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 2 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 3 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 4 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 5 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 6 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 7 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 8 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 9 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 10 | After 32 years I continue to enjoy my Medau by doing three classes a week — with Myrtle Mott at Plumstead , with Elsie Streek at Alderwood School and with Bridget at Sidcup and I must say that this form of movement has given me a great deal of pleasure so LONG LIVE MEDAU . |
| 11 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 12 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 13 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 14 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 15 | After several years I finished my punishment , and so I was allowed to work for myself . |
| 16 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 17 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 18 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 19 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 20 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 21 | After seven years I came to the Law Society as Secretary-General . |
| 22 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 23 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 24 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 25 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 26 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 27 | For three years I played at will . |
| 28 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 29 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 30 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |