Example sentences of "was [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 2 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 3 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 4 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 5 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 6 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This interpretation was accepted for many years but has recently been challenged . |
| 13 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 14 | She was smoking for twenty-five years . |
| 15 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 22 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was fined £250 plus £25 costs , had his licence endorsed and was disqualified for one year . |
| 28 | The pause was to last for three years . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 30 | Thus , he set up his own windsurfing and surfing business at Whitesands which was to run for 2 years . |