Example sentences of "[noun] [be] for [det] years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 2 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 3 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 4 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 5 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 6 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 7 | Zanzibar was for many years an Omani-owned territory . |