Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 2 | Dovaston , who formerly worked for 25 years as a senior detective in the Liverpool area , explained that every fact that can be gleaned from the investigation into the boy 's murder so far will be punched into CATCHEM . |
| 3 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 4 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 5 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 6 | He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital . |
| 7 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 8 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 9 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 10 | The artists with whom his gallery was closely involved are Andy Goldsworthy , Hamish Fulton , Roger Ackling and Ian Hamilton Finlay , whose Wild Hawthorne Press material he presented at the Fruitmarket when it briefly reopened for last year 's Edinburgh Festival . |
| 11 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |