Example sentences of "there for [det] year " in BNC.

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1 At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years .
2 The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England .
3 The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works .
4 But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years .
5 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
6 These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 .
7 The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent .
8 Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years .
9 It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years .
10 He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman .
11 have n't been there for many years
12 Christopher had obviously been going there for some years .
13 In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years .
14 After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
15 This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years .
16 Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 .
17 In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings .
18 ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’
19 I was now in my twenty-seventh year on the island , and I did not want to be there for another year .
20 possibility is that Marilyn would stay up there for another year with Carris you know in their house and Timothy of course and erm , then sort of move down here
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