Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 2 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 3 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 4 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
| 5 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 6 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 7 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 8 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 9 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 10 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |