Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 2 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 3 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 4 | His friends say the van , which he kept for two years until he turned professional in 1954 , helped teach him more about comedy than anything else . |
| 5 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |
| 6 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 7 | It was a decision which he regretted for some years , although within the university he proved an effective teacher and he was dean of the faculty of science from 1894 until 1913 . |
| 8 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 9 | But he made the studio ( which he used for twenty years ) simple and plain , matching a portrait style in which , in his own words , ‘ character rather than flattery was the dominant note . ’ |
| 10 | He more or less started the Gloucester County Youth Orchestra , which he conducted for 13 years , as well as running the County Music Summer Schools . |
| 11 | In 1946 he became Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne , Australia 's first such Chair , which he occupied for 32 years . |
| 12 | As a natural artist , he became a successful portrait painter a cartoonist for a Liverpool journal and art master at a number of Liverpool schools before embarking upon a career as missioner which he pursued for thirty years until his retirement in 1931 . |
| 13 | Perhaps an exception might be made for the one important and sustained collective activity in which he participated during these years . |
| 14 | In 1462 , under Edward IV , he received the life grant of the office of engraver to the Tower mint and all other mints in England and Calais , which he held for 20 years before relinquishing it in favour of his nephew , John Shaa . |
| 15 | His Engineer 's Year-book , first produced with W. Hannaford-Smith , was a major achievement and one which he steered for thirty-six years . |