Example sentences of "for [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 3 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 4 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 7 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 8 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 9 | He has strong interests in education , and management training and much experience of negotiating with government , something that we all need in N C V O. For some years he 's been a member of the Council for Voluntary Service Overseas . |
| 10 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 13 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 14 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 15 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 16 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |
| 17 | For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself . |
| 18 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 19 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 20 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 21 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 22 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 23 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 24 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 25 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 26 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 27 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 28 | For many years he lived with his mother . |
| 29 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 30 | He moved to London , where for many years he regularly preached in a chapel in Bayswater . |