Example sentences of "four years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 2 | Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers . |
| 3 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 4 | For four years they had worked together in Rome . |
| 5 | So that was our first se good school , as you may say then and then within about four years they built Tanys Dell and erm we just you know , we formed a quite a a a very good community here because we were all people from different areas we all had the same problems trying to re-adjust in a new place and I think then , we had more relationship with , with our neighbours than people are having today . |
| 6 | I 've only been here four years we had the white one remember the gas one got certified dangerous ? |
| 7 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 8 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 9 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 10 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 11 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 12 | ‘ But at the time , I did n't think the four years I had spent at Westminster Hotel School , learning to make classic garnishes , was right for the Golden Egg . |
| 13 | In four years I fostered one ! and I am proud to say that Fr Liam Durrant , our present Vocations Director , came through my hands — should he be successful , would that make me a grandfather ? ! |
| 14 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 15 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 16 | For the last four years she had struggled to forget about him , to make a life for herself without him . |
| 17 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 18 | For four years he hacked into data and ran rogue programmes . |
| 19 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 20 | For four years he led beaver-trapping expeditions along the Snake with increasing success , while the Nez Perce warriors confined themselves to fleecing the less provident of Mackenzie 's Iroquois henchmen . |
| 21 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 22 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 23 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 24 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 25 | For four years he tried to find a studio that was interested . |
| 26 | For four years he pummelled bass with the Dino dudes before splitting in the summer of '89 , thoroughly alienated by J Mascis ’ autocratic tendencies and the band 's impending major status . |
| 27 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
| 28 | For more than four years he rented a luxury flat near his home at a cost of £385 a week and showered her with expensive gifts . |
| 29 | As TODAY revealed yesterday , there had been evidence that for over four years he rented a luxury apartment only 11 miles from their bungalow at Caterham , Surrey . |
| 30 | During the next four years he travelled extensively in China , recording every facet of life at all levels of society , from paupers to princes . |