Example sentences of "for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their exam is more or less G C S E for eleven year olds you know |
| 2 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 3 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 4 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 5 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 6 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 7 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 8 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 9 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |
| 10 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 11 | In the end the scene to which she had objected was cut and , directly or indirectly , Mrs Whitehouse became persona non grata at the BBC for eleven years . |
| 12 | David himself , however , was wounded in the face and taken prisoner by a Northumbrian knight , John of Copeland : he was to remain a prisoner in England for eleven years . |
| 13 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 14 | Instead Helen Mules , who has been in the department for eleven years , has taken over as Associate Curator Acting in Charge . |
| 15 | Canon Claude Rutter , who was rural dean of Sherborne for eleven years and is now the diocese 's Rural Link Officer , agrees with him . |
| 16 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 17 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 18 | ‘ The biggest gang we 've got has been at war with its rival for eleven years , ’ Hart explained . |
| 19 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 20 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 21 | We went to the movies 93 million times in 1991 — the highest figure for eleven years . |
| 22 | The last straw — though a haystack could have been built with Headlam 's last straws — was a speech in Trafalgar Square advocating the abolition of the House of Lords , after which he was refused a licence by his bishop , for eleven years . |
| 23 | For eleven years , loyally assisted by his wife , he had worked under almost intolerable conditions . |
| 24 | He filled this position for eleven years , first under Wood , and then from 1876 under his successor , Lieutenant-Colonel George Hillier . |
| 25 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 26 | He joins the company from the Wellcome Foundation Limited , where he has been Group Risk and Insurance Manager for eleven years . |
| 27 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 28 | The woman driver of the hired van who 's British but has ben living in france for eleven years had apparently driven a mile on the wrong side of the road . |
| 29 | In the second , more optimistic ending , Pip returns to the forge after working abroad for eleven years and goes to Hoe and Biddy and finds they have a son , also called Pip . |
| 30 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |