Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was for nine years Consultant Architect to Llandaff Cathedral until his retirement . |
| 2 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 3 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 4 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 5 | and second of all he 'd known her since they were at school , well he was like ten years older , but something like that any way oh brilliant this is back on Jack The Ripper that |