Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [num] year " in BNC.

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1 Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years .
2 She lived for 20 years in London and has a string of TV credits and many well-known and much-loved roles .
3 Margaret says she looks after 35 year old Andrew 24 hours a day .
4 There , watching TV , was the mother she fled from two years earlier to escape a ceaseless round of drunken beatings and ill-treatment .
5 She studied for two years in audio-visual design .
6 In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years .
7 Previously , she worked for five years as an executive secretary with Balfour Kilpatrick , the Electrical Engineering Company in Renfrew .
8 At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week .
9 Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s .
10 She worked for 25 years at the Burtons Biscuit factory , now based at Sighthill , and for many years was a union branch secretary .
11 She knew from thirty years ' experience that bullies were a breed apart .
12 Philip brought his young bride Ann Escourt to his ‘ new mansion ’ , as a neighbour described it , but she died within three years at the age of twenty-four and is buried here in the churchyard .
13 Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years .
14 Her first professional appearance was in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , with whom she stayed for two years before returning home to use her classically trained talents in summer stock productions of Bye , Bye , Birdie ; Fiorello ; and Blossom Time .
15 Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight .
16 Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A.
17 After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland .
18 On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 .
19 Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics .
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