Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 2 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 3 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 4 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |
| 5 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 6 | Sir Peter , who served for many years with 22nd SAS Regt. and SAS Group , is the first general to wear the badge in the SAS sand-coloured beret . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 8 | The couple 's elder son , Jonathan , who served for 12 years at sea with the Dutch Merchant Navy , is a marine engineer . |
| 9 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 10 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 11 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 12 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 13 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |
| 14 | The Sub-faculty of Chemistry , which consists of all those involved in the teaching of the subject , meets once a term with an elected chairman ( not usually a professor ) who serves for two years . |
| 15 | The services of ISCO can be called upon by those who enrol for several years after the pupil have left school . |
| 16 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 17 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 18 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 19 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 20 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 21 | character in Washington Irving 's story of that name , who slept for 20 years . |