Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 2 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 3 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 4 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 5 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 6 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 7 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 8 | The school occupied Trench Hall , a stately home which , having stood vacant for seven years , showed all the obvious signs of neglect . |
| 9 | He leaned heavily upon her arm , with a shambling lameness which was only half assumed , for he had gone barefoot for three weeks before he reached the refuge from which Iago had conveyed him west to Shrewsbury . |
| 10 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 11 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 12 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 13 | Thehealthy twins have remained healthy for 21.4 years ( range 8–40 ) after the diagnosis of the matching twins who had ulcerative colitis and for 14.9 years ( range 7–31 ) in the twins discordant with those who had Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | I 'm not surprised she 's gone short for four years . |
| 15 | rightly , have stood condemned for 300 years for having committed the atrocity . |