Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 2 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 3 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 4 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 5 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
| 6 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 7 | It can also be increased by layering , from soft cuttings or division in early spring , and grows for many years . |
| 8 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 9 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 10 | Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually . |
| 11 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 12 | The best thing about Christmas is buying well thought out gifts that will give pleasure and use for many years to come . |
| 13 | He will be badly injured but will return to the Highlands and live for many years . ’ |
| 14 | Slithering through damp meadows at night , wriggling over rocks and up waterfalls , even finding their way into mountain streams , ten thousand feet up in the Alps — in these resting spots , they settle down and live for many years . |
| 15 | Under good conditions they will , thrive , reproduce and live for many years . |
| 16 | The orthodoxy of educational planning and aid policy is subject to spectacular changes as world politics change , as the advice so confidently given and taken in former years proves not to yield the promised fruit , as old gurus are discredited and new ones rise to take their place . |
| 17 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 18 | Commenting on her selection , Sue Baring said : ‘ I 'm delighted to have been chosen to stand in a part of the country that I have known and loved for many years . |
| 19 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 20 | But thank you all , and I wish you you the members and N C V O itself , every good fortune , and I think we 've had such a good day today , and I think Sir Leonard has shown us a really very clear way forward , and I know that the relationships which already exist , and those which will be developed can only be Thank you all very much for your support and help through those years . |
| 21 | He moved to Headley with his family last year from London , where he had won a reputation as a campaigner in his community , and set up practice as Jack Warshaw Conservation Architecture and Planning after many years as head of conservation at Wandsworth Council . |
| 22 | The company was set up in 1970 to sell Courtelle acrylic fibre made in Calais , staffed mostly by French people and managed for many years by a Frenchman , . |
| 23 | Not a big problem , but enough of one to have tried and failed for several years at everything from Weightwatchers to F-Plan . |