Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 2 | SNI has spent years attempting to unify conflicting technology inherited when Siemens AG , SNI 's parent company , fused its Data and Information Systems Group with Nixdorf Computer AG . |
| 3 | The resources of the Communications Compound would be stretched to the limit , sending instantaneous pictures by satellite to destinations which Marco Polo and Captain Cook had taken years to reach . |
| 4 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 5 | Charles has had years of practice and had already encountered all the customs and forms of national dress that amuse Diana so much . |
| 6 | W. H. Auden had remarked years before , in a sonnet called ‘ The Novelist ’ ( 1939 ) , how alarmingly inclusive the fiction-writer looks , compared with the poet : |