Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 3 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 4 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 5 | At the end of the 1975 season , he threw in the towel — though Hesketh , under Horsley , was to stagger on for two more years , with indifferent results . |
| 6 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 7 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 8 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |
| 9 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 10 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 11 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 12 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 13 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 14 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 15 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 16 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 17 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 18 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 19 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 20 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 21 | Popular with those who 've found romance late in life , and would like to make up for those lost years . |
| 22 | It would n't be realistic to expect Christmas to make up for three flat years , ’ commented Sue Butterworth at Silver Moon Bookshop on the Charing Cross Road . |
| 23 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 24 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 25 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 26 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |