Example sentences of "for the [adj] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 3 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 4 | That brand of it is an offshoot of the United States v Europe confrontation which has been fuelled by the Ryder Cup and spilled over now into major championships , potentially the more so at the Masters where the winners for the past four years have been British . |
| 5 | Uhlenhorst , from Germany , have held the European Cup for the past four years and during their reign only one club , Atletico Terrassa , of Spain , have maintained a challenge to this supremacy . |
| 6 | Every year for the past four years , some of the veterans I was with in Normandy have taken part in the annual Paulton memorial service . |
| 7 | Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture . |
| 8 | Where else could you discover that Al Ittihad have won the Libyan League for the past four years ? |
| 9 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 11 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 12 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 13 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 14 | At the same time John Hogan , managing director of LASMO North Sea for the past four years , steps up to become chief operating officer . |
| 15 | The restaurant has been awarded the Les Routiers ‘ Casserole ’ of excellence for the past four years . |
| 16 | Nothing else about me seems to have been very important for the past four years ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 18 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 19 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 20 | For the past four years , Nottingham has led the field in police harassment of motorists over the Christmas period , and come bottom of the league in the proportion of compulsory breath tests which proved justified . |
| 21 | Stafford Cripps , who had occupied the leading position in the League for the past four years , was particularly enthusiastic about the proposed campaign . |
| 22 | This was the obvious sequel to its policy for the past four years . |
| 23 | For the past four years Clare Radcliff has lived in RAF married quarters . |
| 24 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 25 | However she was unable to attend , having been under house arrest in Burma which is ruled by the military , for the past four years . |
| 26 | Mrs Godwin and her husband had lived in the pictureque village of Spratton for the past four years . |
| 27 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 28 | It also clinched their place in the European Clubs Championship , in which they have won the silver medal for the past four years . |
| 29 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |