Example sentences of "which run for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 2 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 3 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 4 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 5 | The trust , which runs for five years , is chaired by the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair and administered by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |