Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 2 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 3 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 4 | The decision in Lawrence was a clear decision of this House upon the construction of the word ‘ appropriate ’ in section 1(1) of the Act , which had stood for 12 years when doubt was thrown upon it by obiter dicta in Morris . |
| 5 | Although the transition from Kenyatta to Moi was nominally smooth , it was in fact the culmination of a battle for power which had lasted for 12 years . |