Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged that he received payment for two years advertising , but only one year 's space was booked . |
| 2 | He joins the company from Gibson , Dunn and Crutcher , where he practised law for 15 years . |
| 3 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 4 | He served Luton for 45 years as player , captain , acting manager , director , chairman and president . |
| 5 | He served Luton for 45 years as player , captain , acting manager , director , chairman and president . |
| 6 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 7 | Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron . |
| 8 | The judge did not regard the case as one at the higher end of the culpable homicide scale but a human life had been taken and he jailed Sutherland for five years . |
| 9 | WEST HAM assistant manager Harry Redknapp was handed a Pounds 100,000 ex gratia payment when he left Bournemouth after nine years as manager , club accounts have revealed . |
| 10 | This is his first for a new company — he left Motown after 30 years , following Berry Gordy 's own departure — and the tracks have a fresh , live feel to them . |
| 11 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |