Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
2 | There I remained for five years , going on to Theology after History . |
3 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
4 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
5 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |