Example sentences of "[num] years for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 30 years for IRA terrorist |
| 2 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 3 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 4 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 5 | It can take as many as 10–15 years for HIV to destroy the body 's immune system . |
| 6 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 7 | That 's why when I hear my daughter talking about getting fifteen or twenty K a year I 'm going it would pay me two or three years for God 's sake . |
| 8 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 9 | Pesatori worked for 21 years for Olivetti before joining Zenith two years ago . |
| 10 | Moreover , when the Historia Brittonum ( ch. 65 ) accords Ecgfrith , son of Oswiu , a reign of nine years , this is an error for fourteen ( viiii for xiiii ) ; x years for Penda could conceivably be a partial transcription of xxii . |
| 11 | Perhaps she should have had a brother or sister for Tina , though being well into her forties by then and having waited twelve years for Tina to come along made that impossible . |
| 12 | Five years for Francis Graham Dixon |
| 13 | Sir Richard flew off with wife Sheila Sim yesterday for Hawaii , to work in front of the camera for the first time in 15 years for Steven Spielberg 's latest film Jurassic Park . |
| 14 | These range from a matter of hours to thirty years for Caesium 137 and 24,000 years for Plutonium 239 . |
| 15 | Mrs Bottomley stressed her commitment to the Patient 's Charter , which has already eliminated almost all waits of more than two years for NHS operations . |
| 16 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 17 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 18 | Four years for New York 's hotel queen . |
| 19 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 20 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 21 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 22 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |