Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his many activities he had founded School Lacrosse and arranged Sixth Form walks for many years ; during the War he tended the School 's allotments by the Fives Courts , before the playing fields were laid out . |
| 2 | The province can expect to see leading Danish players on the European team in Belfast , and the All England men 's doubles victory by Thomas Lund and Jon Holst-Christensen was the first European win for 10 years in that event . |
| 3 | The first subs offer for many years — do n't miss it ! |
| 4 | Hunter 's financial adviser David Carter , from Dartford , Kent , was last month jailed for two years for conspiring to defraud the pension fund of a large engineering company in the Midlands . |
| 5 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |