Example sentences of "where [pron] [vb past] for [adj] years " 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 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 4 | After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland . |
| 5 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 6 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 7 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After training , Glen , accompanied by his wife , went as a missionary to Astrakhan , in southern Russia , where he remained for five years . |
| 13 | 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 . |