Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 2 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 3 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 4 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 5 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 6 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 7 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 8 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 9 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 10 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 11 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 12 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 13 | Except that in my case there was no need to wait for seven years . |
| 14 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 15 | Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever . |
| 16 | A SIGN outside a nursing home in the centre of Barnard Castle can stay for five years , an appeal inspector has ruled . |
| 17 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 18 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 19 | In the case of the 1,800 which Book Trust received for this year 's Smarties Prize , they found good homes . |
| 20 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 21 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 22 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 23 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 24 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 25 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 26 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 27 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 28 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 29 | I went down to have a word with the promotion yesterday and er we have er come to terms and er we are all ready to go for next year . |
| 30 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |