Example sentences of "in for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased frailty may suddenly make a house or flat , lived in for years , totally unsuitable — the garden is too big to manage , upstairs bedrooms become inaccessible , or getting to the shops and other local services presents difficulties . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | The police bed was the most comfortable he had slept in for years , and the meal really good . |
| 4 | Snow lying in the sun and making the place we had lived in for years suddenly fresh and rare . |
| 5 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 7 | ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery . |
| 8 | Very very er able , capable man , but anyway , and he was in for years , but er beat him . |
| 9 | The one she had slept in for years before moving upstairs this summer to share with Thérèse . |
| 10 | You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’ |