Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 3 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 4 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 5 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 6 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |