Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 2 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 3 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
| 4 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 5 | She was smoking for twenty-five years . |
| 6 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 7 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 8 | The additional money that we 're looking for this year er a substantial amount of this will go to funding of the rent for the new premises for the c the Citizens ' Advice Bureau and I do n't propose to stand here and defend the Citizens ' Advice Bureau because it does n't need it , I hope . |
| 9 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 10 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 11 | They are fixed for five years at open market value , based on a detailed profit and loss account taking into account the outgoings , turnover , style , size and location of the pub . |
| 12 | They are appointed for four years . |
| 13 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 14 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 15 | Just £9.50 , they 're guaranteed for five years . |
| 16 | Er against the cost of government changes so this last part of this budget is actually the cost of making up for government cuts and section of and we 're disappointed that Conservatives decided to cut the section they were funding for next year . |
| 17 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 18 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 19 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 20 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 21 | It was missing for three years , until recovered unharmed from Bothwell Brig in Lanarkshire . |
| 22 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |
| 23 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 24 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 25 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 26 | He was jailed for five years . |
| 27 | He was jailed for 3.5 years for his part in the affair . |
| 28 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 29 | He was jailed for 10 years . |
| 30 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |