Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 2 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 3 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 4 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |
| 5 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 10 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Did n't know you had it for four years . |
| 14 | Trod it for thirty year , |