Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 2 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 3 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 4 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 5 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 6 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 7 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 8 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |
| 9 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 10 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126 degrees and each small bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 11 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 12 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 13 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 14 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 15 | Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew , President of the BT National Swimathon , wished all 30,000 swimmers who have signed up for this year 's BT National Swimathon ‘ the very best of luck ’ . |
| 16 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |