Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 2 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 3 | Negotiations on the treaty , which had begun in 1968 , were stalled for many years . |
| 4 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 5 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 6 | The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham . |
| 7 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 8 | His only surviving set of clothes was exhibited for many years at the London Inn on St. John 's Street , and the American dwarf Charles Stratton ( ‘ General Tom Thumb ’ ) visited Stamford in 1846 , 1859 , and with his wife Livinia Warren and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren in 1866 , to view the phenomenon . |
| 9 | This interpretation was accepted for many years but has recently been challenged . |
| 10 | But just as a deeply flawed system of classification was operated for many years before the 1981 Education Act by professionals who openly disavowed it , so it is probable that levels of attainment will be used in most decisions about children who experience difficulties . |
| 11 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 12 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 13 | Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate . |
| 14 | But all the wealth and all the lands of the Talliens could not provide the one element that Nora sought : the fragrance of the oaks — the smell of Normandy in spring ; for spring was gone for another year . |
| 15 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 16 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 17 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |
| 18 | The Solland Sword was lost for many years , having disappeared during the destruction of Solland by Gorbad Ironclaw 's Orcs . |
| 19 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 20 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |