Example sentences of "[verb] together for [adj] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 2 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 3 | Retirement and the receipt of a National Insurance pension were therefore tied together for 40 years until October 1989 , when the earnings rule and the retirement condition were abolished . |
| 4 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 5 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 6 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |