Example sentences of "for [adj] years she have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years she had struggled to come to terms with her own emotions . |
| 2 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 3 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 4 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 5 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 6 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 7 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 8 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 9 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 10 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |
| 11 | For several years she had been almost obsessed by Peter Sebastian , not only by his work , she finally admitted , but by the man himself . |
| 12 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 13 | For two years she had awaited the turn of events before deciding which side to join , while maintaining a mobilized army . |
| 14 | ‘ For two years she has carried this burden . |
| 15 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |