Example sentences of "be a [noun] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had been a prosecutor for eight years . ’ |
| 2 | He 's been a hillwalker for 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 3 | David Moore had been a pilot for 25 years , flying with the Fleet Air Arm before joining Rolls Royce . |
| 4 | I have not been a thief for seventeen years , chance would be a thing . |
| 5 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Murchie , 48 , who has been a member for nine years , believes everyone needs some kind of first aid training . |
| 7 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 8 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 9 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 10 | Whatever the exact circumstances , it is at least clear that Eliot vacated Carlyle Mansions quickly and deliberately — and that he left behind him a man to whom he had been a companion for ten years . |
| 11 | Surgical nurse practitioner Lou Jacobs has been a nurse for 17 years and has over 12 years ' experience in intensive care units . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 13 | Charles had been a bachelor for thirty-two years . |
| 14 | You 've been a widow for fourteen months now . |
| 15 | She had been a widow for 25 years and now lived in one room , earning a living as a charwoman . |
| 16 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 17 | In 1672 , having been a widower for two years , he married a daughter of the imprisoned republican general , John Lambert , which hardly argues any diminution in his commitment to the ‘ Good Old Cause ’ . |
| 18 | He had been a widower for twenty-six years , and had no children . |
| 19 | ‘ The King had been a widower for ten years , ’ he continued . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been a widower for ten years . ’ |
| 21 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 22 | The dis-used brick pit has been a tip for 10 years and will continue as one for 30 more . |
| 23 | Reginald Oliffe , who 's 44 , was said in court at Cheltenham to have been a farmer for 25 years . |
| 24 | Margaret Hughes was said in court to have been a farmer for 40 years . |
| 25 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
| 26 | I mean to say , Charles is an absolute prick , but he 's been a prick for twenty years , why divorce him now ? |
| 27 | I 've been a nun for thirty years |
| 28 | Mark , 27 , who is married with two children , has been a soldier for nine years and has served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers . |
| 29 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |
| 30 | Phil , from Paddington , West London , who has been a postman for 20 years , also wins £1,000 for his sorting office . |