Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 3 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 9 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |
| 10 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 11 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 19 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 20 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 21 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 22 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 23 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 24 | Did n't know you had it for four years . |
| 25 | one was because they er wanted you for four years for definite after that working in evaluation so basically you 're committing yourself for five years |
| 26 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 27 | Trod it for thirty year , |