Example sentences of "[verb] for four year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 2 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 3 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 4 | The two banks had agreed that BBV should be co-chaired for four years by a member from each side ( the other co-president being José Angel Sánchez Asiaín — Banco de Bilbao ) , but Banco de Bilbao was anxious to appoint a single president . |
| 5 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 6 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 7 | Judge Julian Hall sentenced Hayton to three months imprisonment and banned him from driving for four years . |
| 8 | No one else in Britain would bury her either , and her relatives reportedly tried for four years to find a country which would offer her a resting place . |
| 9 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 10 | Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life , saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses . |
| 11 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 12 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 13 | However , the full effect of this will not be felt for four years since the government has provided resources to cushion the transfer from rates to the community charge . |
| 14 | This organisation has headquarters in Helsinki " Finland , and is governed by a Bureau consisting of a President , the Secretary-General for the time being , and nine deaf members , elected by national delegates to serve for four years from one Congress to the next . |
| 15 | If the application is successful , a patent will be granted for four years initially and may be renewed , annually , up to a maximum of twenty years from the date the application is filed ( the priority date ) . |
| 16 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 17 | And the British Rail Board stalled for four years , before admitting there was no evidence . |
| 18 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 19 | Newly married and impecunious , Freeman entered the Colonial Service as assistant colonial surgeon in Accra on the Gold Coast , where he landed in June 1887 , remaining for four years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 22 | A research student is required to complete a period of full-time study lasting for two years for MPhil or three years for DPhil , or a period of part-time study lasting for four years for MPhil or five years for DPhil . |
| 23 | The EDC remained a subject of controversy and delay for four years , and was finally rejected by the French National Assembly in August 1954 . |
| 24 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 25 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 26 | Er I mean , all I want Win , is something to do for four years than sit at home being a housewife and hang yourself as well ! |
| 27 | Quinlivan jailed for four years |
| 28 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 29 | Erm , from there I 've erm , worked for four years , I 've taken erm , a break to have children . |
| 30 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |