Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 2 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 3 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 4 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 5 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 6 | It was for three years only , but it was a promising stepping-stone to a proper appointment . |
| 7 | He was for nine years Consultant Architect to Llandaff Cathedral until his retirement . |
| 8 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 9 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 10 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |