Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture .
2 ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years .
3 His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years .
4 Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years .
5 In 1907 Scott returned to I Tatti where he remained for two years , acting as secretary-librarian to Berenson , by whose intensely aesthetic approach to the study of art he was powerfully influenced .
6 After training , Glen , accompanied by his wife , went as a missionary to Astrakhan , in southern Russia , where he remained for five years .
7 Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years .
8 Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) .
9 MANAGER Colin Galloway recalled his early days as an apprentice with The National Commercial Bank of Scotland when he retired after 34 years ' service .
10 His father Vincent , now 70 , holds an OBE awarded when he retired after 40 years as an executive with the Agriculture Ministry .
11 Barnacles were a fit subject for Darwin to work on , as he did for many years , because of their curious metamorphosis ; and also because of the way in which males have regressed to become merely vestigial in some species .
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