Example sentences of "for [adj] years [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awards for forty years service were presented to ( left to right ) : Back Row — Alec Watt , Charlie Allan , John Connelly , George White , Tom Walker & Jackie Wilson . |
| 2 | The satellite will cost £150 million at today 's prices and the BBC 's fee for 7 years use is still undecided . |
| 3 | For many years Shardlow was ‘ an improving place ’ , but the Derbyshire directory for 1857 observes that business had declined greatly after the opening of the Midland and other railways . |
| 4 | For many years paleontologists were obliged to work with the swamp-dweller model of the sauropods . |
| 5 | ‘ For many years doctors were not able to offer any treatment . |
| 6 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 7 | For many years IOLs were made from PMMA , with polypropylene or poly(ethylene) terephthalate ) haptics ( fixation loops ) . |
| 8 | Although for many years retributivism was regarded ( at least in academic circles ) as outmoded and even atavistic , it has enjoyed a major revival in recent years , notably in the forms of the ‘ Justice Model ’ and ‘ law and order ideology ’ discussed later in this chapter . |
| 9 | For eighty years Melton was a railway ‘ town ’ . |
| 10 | For several years Marton was closed during the winter , and its service cars transferred to Rigby Road shed , which operated the Marton route . |
| 11 | For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement . |
| 12 | For two years Ramsey was in charge of repairs at the Tower , but was able to continue in private practice , agreeing on 23 May 1337 to advise on the works of Lichfield Cathedral . |
| 13 | For other years estimates were made by linear interpolation , a proportionate adjustment being made if the total of the estimates so obtained for individual age groups did not agree with the independent estimate from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for all ages taken together . |
| 14 | But for seven years Stuart was a visibly devoted father and Lyn supported and promoted his career . |