Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations on the treaty , which had begun in 1968 , were stalled for many years . |
| 2 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This interpretation was accepted for many years but has recently been challenged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 8 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 9 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Solland Sword was lost for many years , having disappeared during the destruction of Solland by Gorbad Ironclaw 's Orcs . |
| 12 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 13 | 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 . |