Example sentences of "and for [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 2 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 3 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 4 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 5 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 6 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 7 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 8 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 9 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 10 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 11 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 12 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
| 13 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |