Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 2 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , of Weardale Drive , Woodhouse Close , Bishop Auckland , clung hold of her sister Joan Whalen for 25 minutes after neighbours alerted the ambulance service that Mrs Whalen had plunged from the window of her house . |
| 3 | They , like us , were shifty-eyed ; there had been no rain in Botswana for four years and the lions of the Kalahari were getting hungry . |
| 4 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
| 5 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 6 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 7 | The employees worked at Fulham for three weeks but were dissatisfied with the conditions there . |
| 8 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 9 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 10 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
| 11 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 12 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 13 | Two daughters also worked in the ovens department — Mary Ward for 31 years and Nellie Smith for 14 years . |
| 14 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 15 | Later , new ports were developed at Sunderland Point and Glasson for larger ships than could negotiate the estuary as far as Lancaster itself . |
| 16 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 17 | I have known Rob and Sarah for ten years and their constant support , encouragement and friendship have been invaluable . |
| 18 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 19 | He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election . |
| 20 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
| 22 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 23 | Sanchita Saha , defending , said Mr. Uddin , 29 , had owned the Lal Quila for five years and never had a complaint before . |
| 24 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 25 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 26 | ( ii ) If , as in 1.7.1 S is closed under ρ it follows that ρ\S x S is a binary operation on S. For psychological reasons and to stop pedantry getting out of hand , we replace ρ\S x S by the technically incorrect but intuitively more palatable symbol ρ and speak accordingly of ρ as being a binary operation on S. Thus for s and t in S we write sρt whether s and t are regarded as being in S or in A. |
| 27 | Do n't base long term decisions on how you feel Tuesday for passing fads and fancies give you a false impression of what you want to achieve in times to come . |
| 28 | Say , for example , they choose Friday , Saturday , Sunday , Monday and Tuesday for successive weeks and ringed them on the calendar . |
| 29 | An old friend of President George Bush , Tower was a senator for Texas for 24 years and chaired the Armed Services Committee from 1981 to 1985 , but suffered humiliation in 1989 when the Senate rejected his nomination as Defence Secretary [ see pp. 36515-16 ] . |
| 30 | Foreign Extra Stout has been available in Indonesia for many years and local production began in 1974 . |