Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 2 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 3 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 4 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 5 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 6 | He became honorary lecturer in microscopy at King 's College , London , in 1909 , a position he held for sixteen years . |
| 7 | In 1889 he was elected as first county councillor for Dursley , a position he held for thirty years and which was followed by nine years as county alderman . |
| 8 | This was produced in Baskerville 's capacity as printer to Cambridge University , an office he held for ten years . |