Example sentences of "[prep] [num] year [pers pn] [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 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 . |
| 3 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 4 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 5 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 6 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 7 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 8 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 9 | After six years she moved out again into her own house , but continued to visit daily . |
| 10 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 13 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 14 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 17 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 18 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 19 | However , after one year she resigned , being replaced by Mrs. B.E.T . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 24 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 25 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 26 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 27 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 28 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |