Example sentences of "have known for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 2 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 7 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 8 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 9 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 10 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |