Example sentences of "for [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 2 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 3 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 4 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 5 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 6 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 7 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 8 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 9 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 10 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 11 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 12 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 13 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 14 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 15 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 16 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 17 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 18 | For six years they have transformed half an acre of bleak Cotswold cottage garden into a celebration of vibrancy . |
| 19 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 20 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 21 | For six years you wander the desert |
| 22 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 23 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 24 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 25 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 26 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 27 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 28 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 29 | For 45 years it was the home of the Wiltshire historian Canon Jackson . |
| 30 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |