Example sentences of "for [adj] years i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 8 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 9 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 10 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 11 | For three years I played at will . |
| 12 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 13 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 14 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 15 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 16 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 17 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 18 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 19 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 20 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 21 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For many years I had the somewhat perverse view that instead of rewarding the salesman who always got the business , we should reward the one who lost it . |
| 24 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 25 | For many years I 've hated you and it seems so — pointless . ’ |
| 26 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |
| 27 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 28 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 29 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 30 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |