Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] year " in BNC.

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1 However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing .
2 Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England .
3 This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life .
4 The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic .
5 But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane .
6 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
7 He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission .
8 Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term .
9 I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen
10 You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge .
11 Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler .
12 he enjoyed it for forty years .
13 The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’
14 Well , I stuck it for two years .
15 Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each .
16 Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ .
17 Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently .
18 Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time .
19 Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 .
20 The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years .
21 His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks .
22 His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " .
23 ‘ I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop .
24 I wore it for one year and that
25 she took it on six year , he says seven to eighty so she looks like working for next six year
26 This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years .
27 Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there .
28 Pearse coached me for two years .
29 Beatty remembered him from three years before , when Hackman had a small but impressive scene in Lilith , Robert Rossen 's final film , which starred Beatty .
30 The farm was her prison until her inheritance from her father 's estate freed her in three years ' time .
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