Example sentences of "was for some year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 2 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 3 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 4 | The tutor-librarian model , and title , was for some years highly contentious in the library profession as well as among many teachers . |
| 5 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |