Sentence examples for for some years before from inspiring English sources

For some years before his death, however, he was almost completely blind and deaf.

That factor must in reality have been operative on Spartan minds for some years before 421.

Leigh Day has been closely involved in the detail for some years before that.

Danny Kelly says good riddance to HMV because it was sickly for some years before it died.

For some years before World War I it was also one of the largest and most prosperous with clients throughout U.S. and Canada.

Mr Steinbrück, in contrast, was a senior official for some years before becoming a minister and later premier of North Rhine-Westphalia.

These plans would typically allow for a waiting period of some years before such immigrants could attain citizenship and generally require background checks and possibly even require fines to be paid before an application could be continued.

Franks just likes very much being what he had been for thirty-some years before the war on terror, which is to say, a relatively anonymous fellow who was making his way along in the Army.

If those men thought of feminism at all, it was as a historic blip that began and ended with the "suffragettes"—who in fact campaigned and crusaded for eighty-some years before American women won voting rights, in 1920.

"I had known Missy for quite some years before London.

Gray had written some big-band arrangements for Winstone some years before, and the singer was startled by his appreciation of lyrics.