Example sentences of "go for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was been going for two years . |
| 2 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 3 | Eldorado 's death knell has been heralded since the week it started on July 6 , although BBC bosses had said they would keep it going for five years despite the torrent of criticism . |
| 4 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 5 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 7 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 8 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 12 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 13 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 14 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 15 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 16 | He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) . |
| 17 | I said and before you start that the caravan ca n't go for four years , on this tape . |
| 18 | would n't go for three years for a grant and just |
| 19 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 21 | Desimir set out with his six wagonloads of treasure , and was gone for three years . |