Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louth was the next move , where stayed for 17 years before going to Wallingford where , with a stay of seven-and-a-half years , he holds the record as longest serving manager ! |
| 2 | It comes from critics who imagine themselves penning formidable papers which , like those of Gregor Mendel , are hidden away or ignored for many years — and do not fare too well , therefore , in ISI 's listings . |
| 3 | Some people think that persevering for 13 years with the policy of playing 11 right wingers could be a mistake . |
| 4 | There is a puzzle that has for many years intrigued mathematicians and philosophers . |
| 5 | This Act ‘ created a local government system that persisted for 45 years , until reorganisation in 1975 ’ ( Page 1983:43 ) . |
| 6 | During the 20th century , anorexia nervosa was ascribed a psychological cause by other physicians ( eg , Charcot , Dubois , Fenwick , Janet ) but then became confused with pituitary insufficiency in 1914 by Simmonds , leading to a controversy that persisted for 30 years . |
| 7 | Assume that a unit buys a minibus for 10,000 that lasts for four years and at the end of Year 4 is worthless . |
| 8 | a partnership that lasted for sixty years . |
| 9 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 10 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |
| 11 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 12 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 13 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 14 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 15 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 16 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 17 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 18 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 19 | They attended art college together and co-habited for fifteen years . |
| 20 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 22 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 23 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
| 24 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 25 | It can also be increased by layering , from soft cuttings or division in early spring , and grows for many years . |
| 26 | The first — which will start in April next year , and run for three years — is a new system of transitional protection for those households that stand to lose most from the abolition of domestic rates . |
| 27 | In fact , immediately upon accepting the Treaty of Rome , the Benelux states agreed in substance in February 1959 to a new treaty of economic union , beginning in January 1960 and to last for 50 years , several years ahead of the Rome programme . |
| 28 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 29 | The EDC remained a subject of controversy and delay for four years , and was finally rejected by the French National Assembly in August 1954 . |
| 30 | Finally : the Prescription Act 1832 , still in force , provides that easements other than rights to light become absolute if enjoyed for 20 years . |