Example sentences of "[prep] several year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 2 | After several years I finished my punishment , and so I was allowed to work for myself . |
| 3 | For several years we drove all the way down from Hertfordshire to Cornwall , very slowly , starting in the early hours of the morning and arriving about tea-time , if we were lucky . |
| 4 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ For several years I had suffered tiredness and bouts of depression which had been put down to overwork , disturbed nights with the children and stress , ’ days Lyn Perry , 40 , of Rickmansworth , who 's married and has three daughters , aged between 10 and 15 . |
| 6 | For several years it looked like Billy Bremner had calmed down , the excessive niggling was more controlled and the bristling temper was kept on a leash , but trouble was always brooding just beneath the surfaces . |
| 7 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 8 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 9 | For several years he drew a salary as distributor of stamps in Ireland , but it seems unlikely that he was one of the Irish Brookes . |
| 10 | For several years he sat on Four Marks Parish Council , later reporting on the meetings as village correspondent for the Alton Herald . |
| 11 | For several years she made tours of the Continent with her elder unmarried sister , Caroline . |
| 12 | For several years she continued with her textile career while Dmitry struggled with various groups . |
| 13 | For example , for several years she arranged regular Saturday evening social gatherings in Kettering for young people . |
| 14 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |
| 15 | For several years she had been almost obsessed by Peter Sebastian , not only by his work , she finally admitted , but by the man himself . |