Example sentences of "have had a [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 2 | That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years . |
| 3 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
| 4 | Yes , when I came to think of it , he 'd had a cough for some time . |
| 5 | She had had a cholecystectomy for epigastric pain seven years before . |
| 6 | How strange that since the eighteenth century the peasants of Møn had had a taste for English ware . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had my girlfriends — I 've had a wife for 37 years . |
| 8 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 9 | Erm your statement of purpose you , you er you , you gave over and at that point , you know , I 've had a policy for thirteen years or whatever it is why , why I have n't seen somebody before erm and again you , you gave an answer to that erm which , which actually satisfied there was n't any , any comeback on it erm you mentioned industry and so on and that was , that was , that was f that was okay . |
| 10 | In the past , German cars have had a reputation for sparse levels of equipment , but this is gradually changing . |