Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adj] year and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 2 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 3 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 4 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 5 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 6 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 7 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 8 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 9 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 10 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 11 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 12 | Yeah the pension 's frozen for five years and and then catches up . |
| 13 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 14 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 15 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 16 | If this House were to apply such a principle it would involve going beyond what any of the authorities have decided , departing from such decisions as Slater v. Burnley Corporation ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation which have stood for many years and would involve making new law . |
| 17 | ‘ The plans have existed for three years and no-one has asked the supporters for their opinion , ’ says a spokesman . |