Example sentences of "for [adj] year on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gypsy families , who 've camped for 70 years on sites like this one near Hereford , say they have no desire to give up their way of life . |
| 2 | Steve took the Mogadon , one of a class of tranquilizers and sleeping pills called benzodiazepines , for eight years on a repeat prescription . |
| 3 | You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation . |
| 4 | Over 1,400 delegates met for the governing Nepali Congress Party 's first national convention for 32 years on Feb. 13-15 , at Jhapa , 400 km east of Kathmandu , the capital . |
| 5 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 6 | And that 's it for another year on Central News . |
| 7 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 8 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 9 | The rate of coronary artery bypass grafting for 1991–2 in Olsburgh 's district was almost exactly the target figure of 300 per million , and I assume that his health authority has based its purchasing decisions for this year on last year 's achievement . |
| 10 | Erm , the er question of the forecast for this year on residential work . |
| 11 | Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal . |
| 12 | The price of gold fell to its lowest level for six years on March 17 , to US$336 per troy ounce at the London bullion market ( compared with over $800 in 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Pat served for six years on the Executive Committee ; she has also been responsible for arranging the flowers at many important functions . |
| 14 | I have heard no demur from the opinion that the Woolf report is the finest document for 100 years on what is wrong with our prisons and the penal system and how to put it right . |
| 15 | KENYA will hold its first multi-party elections for 26 years on December 7 . |
| 16 | Ms Mitchell was jailed for three years on Wednesday at Cambridge crown court for possessing and supplying cocaine . |
| 17 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 18 | This will be a fixed-term , non-renewable appointment for three years on Research Support scale IB ( 12,828 — 17,379 ) . |
| 19 | In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading . |
| 20 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 21 | The landlord said to him you know she , she she sort of took a lease out for three years on it . |
| 22 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 23 | He sat for sixteen years on the London school board , and seventeen on the London county council . |
| 24 | Scott-Kilvert showed his affection for Greece by serving for many years on the council and executive committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League , in due course becoming honorary secretary . |
| 25 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 26 | However , the cows are hardy sucklers and economic feeders ; they breed regularly for many years on extensive systems and are said to ‘ age gracefully ’ . |
| 27 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 28 | The couple had lived for many years on a narrow pedestrian street known quite simply as ‘ Behind the Hill ’ ( later Paul Street ) , a useful little short-cut between Palmer Street and Catherine Hill . |
| 29 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 30 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |