Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 2 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 3 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 4 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 5 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 6 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 7 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 8 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 9 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 10 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 11 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 12 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 13 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 14 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 15 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |
| 16 | The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat , the recession and Hitler 's onslaught , and within fifteen years he was elected Chancellor . |
| 17 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 18 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 19 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 20 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 21 | He decided to brew a long-lasting , high quality version of this porter and within ten years he was exporting his ‘ Guinness Extra Strong Porter ’ to London . |
| 22 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 23 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 24 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 25 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 26 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 27 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 28 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 29 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |