Example sentences of "in [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1838 he was ordained , returned to Italy , and then undertook charge of the Episcopal chapel in Forres for three years . |
2 | His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation . |
3 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
4 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
5 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
6 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
7 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
8 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
9 | Nor can it come from easier monetary policy because of the commitment to the existing exchange rate , combined with the fact that interest rates are being determined in Germany for German reasons . |
10 | The 23-year-old is returning home to Bruhl in Germany for several days rest . |
11 | The first multiparty local elections in Romania for 45 years , held on Feb. 9 , 16 , and 28 , demonstrated significant loss of support for the ruling National Salvation Front ( NSF ) compared with the parliamentary elections held in May 1990 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
12 | He comes from the South and has worked in Middlesbrough for five years , his job proving that numeracy and literacy can go hand-in-hand . |
13 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
14 | For three days , I waited by the hotel pool , watching young Nicaraguan girls practice the cha-cha for a beauty contest , with a media fixer named Paco who had lived and worked in Managua for ten years . |
15 | Inspired by a sense of private and public duty , he served as a magistrate in Widnes for many years . |
16 | Exiled in Venezuela for seven years , he returned to join a military-civilian junta in March 1980 [ see p. 30323 ] formed in October 1979 as a result of the threat of full-scale civil war . |
17 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
18 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
19 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
20 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
21 | Vito Mazzotta has lived in Swindon for 40 years . |
22 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
23 | Details were first announced in March for three concerts — in Belfast , London and Dublin — in aid of Northern Ireland 's young people . |
24 | But it also signals the end of an ancient rite rejoicing in human warmth and in the sun 's return.Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
25 | Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
26 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
27 | They , like us , were shifty-eyed ; there had been no rain in Botswana for four years and the lions of the Kalahari were getting hungry . |
28 | Our plans were to stay in Arad for two nights , deliver food and goods to a gypsy community close by , visit the church with which we have a link with and then continue our journey to Bucharest ( the final 380 miles ) on Wednesday . |
29 | Knighthoods go to the class acts , the Andrew Lloyd Webbers of this world , as well as the dull but self-important people who have merely turned up at their desks in Whitehall for enough years . |
30 | The snow in Austria is stunning , of a quality and depth unheard of in mid-December for many years . |