Example sentences of "[num] [noun] and have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 2 | We had travelled only forty-five miles and had moved into a culture completely different from that of Bangkok , Chiang Mai and Pattaya . |
| 3 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |
| 4 | Mr Harris has been on California 's death row for 11 years and has appealed under habeas corpus eight times . |
| 5 | She worked as a councillor for more than ten years and has campaigned on issues such as the environment , recycling , and nuclear dumping . |
| 6 | We had driven up a muddy track for ten miles and had arrived at a completely ruined farmhouse with no windows or doors , set into the slope of a mountain , looking over a marshy plain . |
| 7 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 8 | Mark , 27 , who is married with two children , has been a soldier for nine years and has served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers . |
| 9 | Their part in the campaign to liberate Panama had consisted of 34 hours in one place and had culminated in them killing an American teenager . |
| 10 | He had been in the Parachute Regiment for twenty years and had served in Borneo , the Oman , Northern Ireland and the South Atlantic . |
| 11 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 12 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |