Example sentences of "for [num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 2 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 3 | Her father , Alic Denning worked as a docker for fifty one years . |
| 4 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 5 | FOR 70 elegant years , the House of Hartnell ruled British fashion . |
| 6 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 7 | The grave remained thus for eight hundred years until visited by the traveller and writer Hals during the reign of Charles II . |
| 8 | Bath , Glastonbury , Bristol and Berkeley Castle ( home of the Berkeley family for eight hundred years ) all make excellent day trips . |
| 9 | GOR A Ability to live for eight hundred years |
| 10 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 11 | I 've been single again for eight long years . ’ |
| 12 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 13 | I stayed for eight more years , for the last two as a teacher . |
| 14 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 15 | The assumption is that methane in the air bubbles trapped in ice remains unchanged for 30 000 years , and this may be incorrect . |
| 16 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 17 | Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful . |
| 18 | For forty five years , we 're being told continually that it is the envy of the world . |
| 19 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 20 | Alex , worked with Stoddards for forty one years . |
| 21 | Ken Powell has worked at Bentley Pianos for forty one years . |
| 22 | for forty six years ! |
| 23 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 24 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 25 | Thus it was that the dinosaurs were astonishingly successful for 140 million years — a period of dominance in which the mammals of the day ( and there were plenty of mammals about ) were pushed into the background , or at least into holes in the ground and in trees . |
| 26 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 27 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 28 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 29 | The danger , that , that , that , look what nature 's done in bloody Sutherfield these days , roll up that fucking volcano , the , it has been dormant for six hundred years , and all of a sudden it explodes , explodes . |
| 30 | For six glorious years the conscription of labour , the compulsory purchase of agricultural products at below market prices , the unceremonious incarceration of the agitating classes , had all been justified and justifiable . |