Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years . |
| 2 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Sept. 28 that Myanma sources and diplomatic observers had dismissed these allegations as an attempt to discredit the NLD and as an attempt to bolster unity in the Army which had fought the insurgent CPB for many years . |
| 3 | Alfie Collis , who has held the full-time post for 14 years , is retiring in September . |
| 4 | I remember a lad named Alfie who was in the junior school for three years . |
| 5 | Like Ballesteros , he envied the cool control of the veteran Smyth , who was 12th in Morocco last week to enjoy his best finish on the European tour for two years . |
| 6 | I start from a position of very much respecting the fact that the hon. Member for Gateshead , East was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years before becoming a Member of this House and I recognise the expertise that she has acquired in this subject . |
| 7 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 8 | Plans to swap 10% or so of its shares with Germany 's Dresdner Bank , touted as the most ambitious cross-border linkage of its kind , have been awaiting approval from the European Community for four years . |
| 9 | Sard Harker cherishes the vision of the flower-encompassed house for ten years before , in 1897 , he revisits it , to find it empty and shut up , and resolves to forget the distant figure of the girl he has always hoped to find . |
| 10 | The 59-year-old star has been married to the striking Shakira for 22 years , he says — though actually it 's 19 . |
| 11 | The show ( from 3 December until 2 January ) is accompanied by a colour catalogue with an essay by Dan Cameron , a New York critic who has been keeping an eagle eye on the Spanish scene for some years . |
| 12 | A member of the group had been bothered had n't been given the right advice for some years . |
| 13 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 14 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 15 | I have been an elected representative of the Labour Party for 20 years and have seen many come and go in their own shadow . |
| 16 | I spent a year and a half in a kibbutz then joined the English army for five years . |
| 17 | The threat of papal taxation once again receded from the English clergy for some years to come . |
| 18 | In 1981 , at the 150th anniversary meeting in York of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , the University of York conferred its degree of doctor on J. G. Crowther ‘ For creating the profession of scientific correspondent , for scholarly contributions to the history of science and to the social aspects of science , and for acting as a healthy irritant to the scientific establishment for 60 years . ’ |
| 19 | Courtaulds and Nippon , who have enjoyed a good working relationship in the marine field for many years , see many mutual benefits from the joint venture . |
| 20 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 21 | Well it reminds me when I was in a shop on the High Street for many years and a little boy and girl came in with a , with an Alsatian dog , a puppy . |
| 22 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 23 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 24 | You will be on contract to the British Government for 2 years , on loan to the Government of the British Virgin Islands . |
| 25 | The Redcoats ruled the roost in the world of the British holiday for many years , providing an apprenticeship for Roy Hudd , and a host of other showbiz dreamers . |
| 26 | On 8 July 1843 , following this episode , the Museum trustees at Panizzi 's request ordered that Harris in future sign any leaf he restored with the formula ‘ This is by J. H. ’ ; other signatures used on facsimiles include ‘ F. S. J. H. ’ , ‘ by H ’ , and ‘ J. H. ’ Harris 's unsigned work is often difficult to distinguish from an original , and his minute signature is sometimes overlooked , as when the British Museum for many years reproduced as genuine a signed Harris facsimile of the printer 's device of William Caxton [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 28 | Earlier this year it was announced that the block contained an oilfield with recoverable reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels of oil , putting it in the so-called ‘ elephant field ’ category and the largest oil find off the British coast for five years . |
| 29 | The painting shows a Welsh salmon more than four pounds heavier than the Scottish fish which has held the British record for seventy years . |
| 30 | He 's been a member of the Medieval Circle for twelve years and goes to all their functions . |