Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 32 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 33 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 34 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 35 | Not like it is now ; it 's not rained for twenty years . ’ |
| 36 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 37 | Much of the mill 's corn milling equipment , as well as the iron water wheel , still survive , although not worked for many years . |
| 38 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 39 | We can quickly dispose of the most obvious zone fossil , the king himself , in that he had already lived for 60 years before his era began and we have seen that his era is commonly regarded as lasting several years after his extinction . |
| 40 | The feeling grew in many Arab states that international reaction to the Kuwaiti crisis was hypocritical , given that the West , and in particular the USA , had largely acquiesced for 23 years in Israel 's occupation of Arab lands . |
| 41 | The speculator 's sole intention is to secure a profit without providing any input , even if this is not achieved for many years . |
| 42 | The London masons complained in 1775 that their 50s ( £2.50 ) a week had not changed for seventy years . |
| 43 | In part , as the UNCTC considers , this is due to a ‘ widespread impression that service industries consist largely of technologically stagnant , small-scale personal services based on unskilled labour working with little capital in ways that have not changed for many years ’ . |
| 44 | ‘ It was to be , ’ he recalled , ‘ the first of the kitchen-sink comedies , but , unfortunately , it was not released for three years , making it the last of the kitchen-sink comedies . ’ |
| 45 | Canterbury ) ‘ which he has already held for three years without ordination and without papal dispensation ’ . |
| 46 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues already held for three years without ordination and without papal dispensation' . |
| 47 | Firstly , a company would only be able to issue preference shares with limited or no voting rights up to 50% of its issued share capital and , if the preference dividends were not paid for three years , the shares would then acquire full voting rights . |
| 48 | Only a few months ago , Action newsletter ( issue Nov/Dec 1991 ) reported that Radio RIN , which has successfully broadcast for eight years , had recently boosted its signal , reaching more children in different Mexican states . |
| 49 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 50 | It 's doing what they 've always done for 50 years . |
| 51 | Executive power is held by the President ( also directly elected for five years ) , assisted by a Vice-President and an appointed Cabinet . |
| 52 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 53 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 54 | A GIRL was yesterday jailed for five years for stabbing her teenage love rival to death . |
| 55 | THERE can not and should not be any sympathy for Michael Watson , the mugger who was yesterday jailed for five years even though it was a first offence . |
| 56 | A MAN who reaped revenge for an alleged stabbing four years ago was yesterday jailed for two years . |
| 57 | A HEARTLESS cheat who ripped off dozens of young screen hopefuls by charging £45 for bogus film auditions was yesterday jailed for 2.5 years . |
| 58 | A POLICEMAN was yesterday jailed for seven years for raping an 18-year-old woman in his marked patrol car while he was on duty and in uniform . |
| 59 | In November 1989 the 300 remaining squatters in Amsterdam were evicted , amid serious disturbances , from the buildings which they had illegally occupied for many years . |
| 60 | Compliance with X/Open Co 's XA transaction processing architecture is also promised for next year . |