Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 4 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 5 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two daughters also worked in the ovens department — Mary Ward for 31 years and Nellie Smith for 14 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have known Rob and Sarah for ten years and their constant support , encouragement and friendship have been invaluable . |
| 12 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 13 | He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election . |
| 14 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
| 15 | Sanchita Saha , defending , said Mr. Uddin , 29 , had owned the Lal Quila for five years and never had a complaint before . |
| 16 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 17 | ( 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. |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Say , for example , they choose Friday , Saturday , Sunday , Monday and Tuesday for successive weeks and ringed them on the calendar . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | Foreign Extra Stout has been available in Indonesia for many years and local production began in 1974 . |
| 22 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 23 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 24 | N.B. Main departure dates are as described ( Friday for 3 nights and Monday for 4 nights ) . |
| 25 | Mr Stillings , 59 , had been Rector of Trefnant for 18 months and had formerly been curate at Rhosymedre and Minera , Vicar of Bagillt and Rector of Llanfynydd . |
| 26 | Disabled and able-bodied children can enrol on the course , which lasts for two hours each Saturday for six weeks and which offers expert tuition . |
| 27 | He appeared in his home town of Bratislava yesterday to attend the staged trial of Mr Jan Czarnogursky for anti-state activities and was greeted by thousands outside the courthouse . |
| 28 | He appeared in his home town of Bratislava yesterday to attend the staged trial of Mr Jan Czarnogursky for anti-state activities and was greeted by thousands who stood outside the courthouse . |
| 29 | As a result judges award far too many soft sentences — the seven years given to Dr Tom Courtney for two rapes and two indecent assaults is by no means the only example . |
| 30 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |