Example sentences of "and [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 2 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 3 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 4 | Britain won the title , and within a couple of years Fritzi and Rixi had become an internationally celebrated bridge double-act . |
| 5 | One twelve-inch Marathon record achieved a playing-time of more than 16 minutes , spread over two sides ; but customers had to change the soundbox of their record-players to cope with ‘ hill-and-dale ’ grooves , and within a couple of years non-standardization had claimed another victim . |
| 6 | And within a couple of years districts will have district wide local plan coverage we hope . |
| 7 | Thus the RAF commenced its preparation to meet Hitler 's Luftwaffe and within a handful of years added roughly one million , including WAAF , to Baldwin 's original figure . |
| 8 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 9 | The Irish team is talented and in a couple of years will be a threat to anyone . |