Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |
| 2 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 3 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 4 | Screen detected high blood pressure under 40 : a general practice population followed up for 21 years |
| 5 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 6 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 7 | Masada held out for two years . |
| 8 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 9 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 10 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ The boss has outlined his plans , but he has n't guaranteed me a first-team place . ’ |
| 11 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ I 'm delighted it 's all gone through so smoothly . ’ |
| 12 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 13 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 14 | The Crystal Palace star signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and admitted : ‘ The manager has outlined his plans , but he has n't guaranteed me a first-team place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Where was that thing plugged in for 50 years ? ’ he asks of the oxygen chamber in which his character was frozen during the experiment . |
| 16 | Projects pencilled in for this year which have not yet started will also be postponed . |
| 17 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 18 | But the couple fell out for three years following a very acrimonious split . |
| 19 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 20 | So the advertisers come in for two years . |