Example sentences of "it for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 2 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 3 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 4 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 5 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 6 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 7 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 8 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 9 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 10 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 11 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 12 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 13 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 14 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 15 | Trod it for thirty year , |
| 16 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 17 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 18 | I have n't drawn it for two years now , but … 'She glanced swiftly at her bag , her watch . |
| 19 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 20 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 21 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 22 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 23 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 24 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 25 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 26 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 27 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 28 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 29 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 30 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |