Example sentences of "[coord] for [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 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 11 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 12 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 13 | 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 . |