Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 5 p.c. reduction in gross margins on lower-margin desk-top computer products and the weakness in the market were blamed for last year 's downturn but ICL says its share of the British computer market rose by one point to 19 p.c . |
| 2 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 3 | Attempts to control power station emissions in Europe were blocked for five years . |
| 4 | These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years , exploiting local iron ore deposits . |
| 5 | Negotiations on the treaty , which had begun in 1968 , were stalled for many years . |
| 6 | Although originally the Roman calendar began in the spring on 1 March ( as reflected in our names for the months September to December ) , the consuls , who were elected for one year , in 153 BC began to take office on 1 January . |
| 7 | Two older youths were jailed for two years and 18 months . |
| 8 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 9 | AN ‘ evil and wicked ’ gang of three armed robbers who terrorised two families were jailed for 65 years yesterday . |
| 10 | Two other men , David Parker , of Heath Road , Middlestone Moor near Spennymoor and George Taylor , of Bridge Street , Bishop Auckland , were jailed for seven years each on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery . |
| 11 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 12 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 13 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 16 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This interpretation was accepted for many years but has recently been challenged . |
| 19 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 20 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 23 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 24 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 25 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 26 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 27 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |
| 28 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 29 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 30 | In another case , a director of an investment company was disqualified for 10 years and his co-director for six years because they had caused the company to continue trading while insolvent , had transferred assets to other companies which subsequently failed , and had been seriously negligent . |