Example sentences of "for [adj] years [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 2 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 3 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 4 | The Chirwas had not seen each other for eight years before our delegation saw them together . |
| 5 | Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease . |
| 6 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 7 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 8 | To add to the combination , she has lived in Scotland for eight years and her Indian father is a vicar . |
| 9 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 10 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 11 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 12 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 13 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 14 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 15 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 16 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 17 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 18 | I have worked in adult education for 12 years and I am proud , like the education spokesman for the Social and Liberal Democrats and , I think , the Leader of the Opposition , to be a vice-president of the Workers Educational Association . |
| 19 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 20 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 21 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 22 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if you 're married to somebody for forty years and they get fat , you do n't just divorce them because they get fat . |
| 24 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 25 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 26 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 27 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 28 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 29 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 30 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |