Example sentences of "for [num] year we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 2 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ For 21 years we have immunised 93,000 children in Bangladesh , planted 1.1m tree seedlings in Ethiopia , provided clothing and food for 400,000 people in Mozambique and helped over 100,000 children in India gain literacy skills . |
| 5 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 6 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 8 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 9 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 10 | For 14 years we owned a large hairy dog . |
| 11 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 12 | ‘ For seven years we have been gypsies , wandering with no home . |