Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 2 | DeRoburt was a key architect of Nauru 's campaign for compensation for the 80 years of phosphate mining which had left 80 per cent of Nauru uninhabitable and incapable of sustaining vegetation . |
| 3 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 5 | For the eight years of their marriage , the Beetons developed a partnership in which the personal and professional were intertwined . |
| 6 | He had been a Housemaster at Cranleigh School , and then Headmaster of Dartford Grammar School in Kent for the eight years before his move to Stockport , and his arrival coincided with the departure of the record number of 69 entrants to University and 18 to Polytechnics and Colleges of Higher Education . |
| 7 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 8 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 9 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 10 | Real income actually fell on average for the five years to September 1978 . |
| 11 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 12 | Using whatever form of analysis you consider appropriate comment on the financial risk profile of Belper Ltd for the five years under review . |
| 13 | I have calculated that my tuition , rent and equipment for the five years of my degree would cost at least £54,500 . |
| 14 | During its period of construction , and for the five years until its dramatic destruction , it drew crowds of curious sightseers to the Rame Peninsular and to every other viewpoint . |
| 15 | For the five years after the murder of the woman at the Theatre Royal his interventions in my life remained purely educative . |
| 16 | These showed an average annual mortality of four deaths per year for the 10 years as a whole . |
| 17 | For the first years with Sarah my life was a happy one . |
| 18 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 19 | For the first years of the Whig period after The Reform Act of 1832 , the government 's financial policies had seemed successful , but a change for the worse was now taking place . |
| 20 | Most of the ‘ Shadows ’ remained in post for the four years of opposition . |
| 21 | On the actuary 's recommendation , it decided to eliminate the surplus by suspending contributions to the scheme for the four years from 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1993 . |
| 22 | It sees the widow as the creator of life who has suddenly become the symbol of death , and who also , as an unsupported woman , may be an expensive burden on the rest of the ‘ tribe ’ for the remaining years of her life . |
| 23 | The targets for Companies House for the two years to April 1991 were as follows ( Cm. 1261 ) : |
| 24 | It expects 1992 's growth to decline one point on 1991 , forecasts 20% for 1993–95 , with 10% for the two years after that . |
| 25 | The five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the two years from Jan. 1 , 1992 , were elected by the General Assembly on Oct. 16 . |
| 26 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 27 | For the two years before Ford 's buy-up , Aston Martin Lagonda had actually shown a profit ( albeit modest ) , the first time in its history that it had managed to do so two years running . |
| 28 | This discrepancy in trends was greater for the earlier years of this period between 1983 and 1987 ‘ there is no statistically sound evidence that the trends diverge ’ ( Mayhew et al . |
| 29 | For the twenty-three years after 1950 , the list was run by Miss Mary Bruce , a caricature white-haired Whitehall spinster more interested in horses than in people and who scared the pants off all who worked with her . |
| 30 | For the 20 years between the 1967 war and the start of the intifada there was coexistence of sorts between Arabs and Jews , even if , in the words of Moshe Dayan , it was the uneasy coexistence of a rider and his horse . |