Example sentences of "at [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 2 | The Arsenal manager , facing up to the worst sequence of League defeats at Highbury for 16 years , is refusing to become a hostage to the reputations of what he calls ‘ name players ’ . |
| 3 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 5 | However , the vandalism to the signalling system in the Birmingham area terminated all trains from the Cambrian and Chester/Shrewsbury areas at Wolverhampton for some weeks from Christmas . |
| 6 | The employees worked at Fulham for three weeks but were dissatisfied with the conditions there . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 9 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 10 | William Hazlitt 's visit to Somerset , so eagerly anticipated since January , began in fine summer weather towards the end of May.24 Having made the journey from Shropshire more quickly than he expected , he lingered nervously at Bridgwater for two days . |
| 11 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 12 | The factory will already be well known to Kirstie , as her father , John Armstrong , has worked at Stoddard for many years , and her sister Karen , works in Management Accounts . |
| 13 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 14 | He inoculated 923 people in the first twenty weeks of 1765 and by late September had three inoculation houses at Ingatestone for different classes of patients paying six , four , or three guineas . |
| 15 | DM outlined the system which has operated successfully at Kew for some years . |
| 16 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 17 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |
| 18 | He has been at Salisbury for 21 years — ‘ I 'm on my third bishop , my fourth dean and my fifth clerk ’ . |
| 19 | It then moved to de Havillands at Hatfield for more trials ( on the 7,100lbst Gyron Juniors ) from November 1960 to April 1961 . |
| 20 | Dyson continued to gaze at Morris for some moments , his mouth very slightly open . |
| 21 | He held the Chair of Botany at Cambridge for thirty years , although he ceased lecturing in 1735 and that University 's Botanic Garden was not established until 1762 ( see Chapter 17 ) . |
| 22 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 23 | ‘ We were together at Liverpool for seven years . |
| 24 | On a lighter vein , congratulations to Jim thorn , head groundsman at Wimbledon for nine years , until his retirement at the age of 65 last July , on winning the 1991 award for Services to Lawn Tennis , presented annually by the Lawn Tennis Writers Association . |
| 25 | In 1309 and 1311 , Hildesley was granted licences to study at Paris for two-year periods . |
| 26 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 27 | Until Helen spent a week at home in early October , they did not meet again for four months ; and when the Webb family were at Rotherfield for two months in August and September , there are no letters or notebooks to fill the gap . |
| 28 | Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals . |
| 29 | Tickets are on sale via the personnel department at Barlaston for three performances by Gandy 's Circus to raise funds for the Douglas Macmillan Home . |
| 30 | Please contact me at Barlaston for further details . ’ |