Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] years she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 2 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
| 3 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 4 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 5 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 6 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |