Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Fred Barker is Senior Master with the hunt , a man who has hunted for 44 years . |
| 2 | A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge . |
| 3 | Mr Morris , 45 , who has served for 10 years at TV-am 's Camden Lock headquarters , says : ‘ I 'm going to have a lie-in in the morning and then a holiday for a couple of weeks somewhere sunny . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 5 | For example , a qualified electrician who has worked for thirty years in that profession could be forced to take an ACE post . |
| 6 | A person who has worked for 40 years for the Scottish Transport Group or one of its subsidiaries will receive a maximum pension of , as I have said , two thirds of pensionable salary . |
| 7 | At the end of the story , the lender admits ‘ It was paste ’ to the woman who has laboured for ten years . |
| 8 | York-born Andy Smith , who has qualified for this year 's British final at Coventry , will make a rare appearance at Cleveland Park . |
| 9 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 10 | Gypsy families , who 've camped for 70 years on sites like this one near Hereford , say they have no desire to give up their way of life . |
| 11 | Walter Renschler , 58 , was elected president of the Swiss Trade Union Federation ( Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund — SGB ) on Oct. 20 , 1990 , in place of Fritz Reimann , who had served for eight years . |
| 12 | The applicant , who was strongly connected to the voters of Angus , sought Panmure 's assistance to obtain a post of inspector of customs for his son , Robert Fullerton , who had served for five years as clerk of the customs and had acted as inspector when some of these officers were under suspension . |
| 13 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 14 | The latter was one of Captain Buck 's SIG men , a Palestinian Jew who had served for several years in the German army . |
| 15 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 16 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 17 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 18 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 19 | The scheme presented a new challenge to Irene , who had worked for 16 years previously in financial administration . |
| 20 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |
| 21 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 22 | A team of 24 firemen who have operated for 17 years without pay and raised the money for their own equipment are the most recent winners of the Guinness Stout Effort Award in Malaysia . |