Example sentences of "for [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 2 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 3 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 4 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 5 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 6 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 7 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 8 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 9 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 10 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 11 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 12 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 13 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 14 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 15 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 16 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 17 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 18 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 19 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 20 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 21 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 22 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 23 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 24 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 27 | For three years I played at will . |
| 28 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 29 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 30 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |