Example sentences of "she [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 2 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 3 | She lived for 20 years in London and has a string of TV credits and many well-known and much-loved roles . |
| 4 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 5 | She studied for two years in audio-visual design . |
| 6 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 7 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 8 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
| 9 | Previously , she worked for five years as an executive secretary with Balfour Kilpatrick , the Electrical Engineering Company in Renfrew . |
| 10 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 11 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 12 | She worked for 25 years at the Burtons Biscuit factory , now based at Sighthill , and for many years was a union branch secretary . |
| 13 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 14 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 15 | Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years . |
| 16 | Her first professional appearance was in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , with whom she stayed for two years before returning home to use her classically trained talents in summer stock productions of Bye , Bye , Birdie ; Fiorello ; and Blossom Time . |
| 17 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 18 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 19 | After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland . |
| 20 | On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 . |
| 21 | Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics . |