Example sentences of "for [num] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 2 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 3 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 4 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 5 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 6 | For twenty three years I lived in England , and with the exception of the Falklands Conflict , I have never felt an emotion for my country like the Americans experience for theirs . |
| 7 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 8 | For two thousand years we lived in darkness . |
| 9 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 10 | For two thousand years we have done that . |