Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 2 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 3 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 4 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |
| 5 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 6 | He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose . |
| 7 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 8 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 9 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 10 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 11 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 12 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 13 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 14 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 15 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 16 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 17 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 18 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 19 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 20 | Watch out for the New Year 's Eve episode of ‘ Taggart ’ . |
| 21 | It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year . |
| 22 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 23 | That will earn him his RIBA Part I. But then , he has to get a year 's relevant experience in practice before coming back for the final year of his course . |
| 24 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 25 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 26 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |