Example sentences of "there for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 2 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 3 | Moreover , 55 per cent of the neighbourhood had been resident there for five years or more . |
| 4 | He had been vice president and general manager of OEM Division there for five years . |
| 5 | I stayed there for five years and was still drinking . |
| 6 | We stayed there for eight years . |
| 7 | She remained there for four years , during which time she conducted researches on the optical properties of organic compounds . |
| 8 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 9 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 10 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 11 | In exchange he would exhibit his collection there for fifteen years , keeping the freedom to exhibit it around the world , and buy and sell from it . |
| 12 | I have lived there for fifteen years , but the moment I leave I feel it closing the doors on me with indifference . |
| 13 | My mother has been happy there for fifteen years . |
| 14 | David and Rachel Lloyd have lived there for fifteen years . |
| 15 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 16 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 17 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the coldest winter there for fifty years . ’ |
| 19 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 20 | The Royal Logistic Corps is transporting the aid in convoys in the worst winter there for fifty years . |
| 21 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 22 | Normally , to become a permanent resident in the Bahamas under category I , an individual needs to invest a minimum of $500,000 and keep it there for 10 years ; this compares with the five years for an investor in Sandyport Marina . |
| 23 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 24 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 26 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 27 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 28 | In the event he stayed there for six years , immersing himself in the special atmosphere of rural Ireland which he found greatly sympathetic . |
| 29 | He remained there for six years until the new governor of Bombay , Sir George Clerk [ q.v. ] , |
| 30 | After I was there for six years |