Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 2 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 3 | Attempts to control power station emissions in Europe were blocked for five years . |
| 4 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 5 | These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years , exploiting local iron ore deposits . |
| 6 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 7 | Negotiations on the treaty , which had begun in 1968 , were stalled for many years . |
| 8 | Two older youths were jailed for two years and 18 months . |
| 9 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 10 | AN ‘ evil and wicked ’ gang of three armed robbers who terrorised two families were jailed for 65 years yesterday . |
| 11 | Two other men , David Parker , of Heath Road , Middlestone Moor near Spennymoor and George Taylor , of Bridge Street , Bishop Auckland , were jailed for seven years each on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery . |
| 12 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 13 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 14 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 15 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 16 | The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham . |
| 17 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 18 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 19 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 20 | His only surviving set of clothes was exhibited for many years at the London Inn on St. John 's Street , and the American dwarf Charles Stratton ( ‘ General Tom Thumb ’ ) visited Stamford in 1846 , 1859 , and with his wife Livinia Warren and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren in 1866 , to view the phenomenon . |
| 21 | This interpretation was accepted for many years but has recently been challenged . |
| 22 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 23 | She was smoking for twenty-five years . |
| 24 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 25 | But just as a deeply flawed system of classification was operated for many years before the 1981 Education Act by professionals who openly disavowed it , so it is probable that levels of attainment will be used in most decisions about children who experience difficulties . |
| 26 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 27 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 28 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 29 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 30 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |