Example sentences of "it for [num] year [coord] " in BNC.

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1 People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more .
2 For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon .
3 Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year .
4 I wore it for one year and that
5 The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts .
6 The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more .
7 Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more .
8 She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three .
9 Well you still do it for three years and !
10 Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round .
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