Example sentences of "had [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 2 | He had eleven years ' good service before the start of war . |
| 3 | A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools . |
| 4 | I woke up and opened my eyes and there were fuzzy patches , just like I had eight years ago … ’ |
| 5 | nin , must been ninety , nineteen fifty I think , yes , we had eight years before our first |
| 6 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 7 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 8 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I already had six years ’ experience of the criminal mind by the time you graduated from the Sorbonne as a spoilt little brat . ’ |
| 10 | And they were n't having him go over budget , as he had six years ago . |
| 11 | Mr Hill said : ‘ He had six years experience as a mental nurse but had never seen anybody so violent as the defendant . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This is this sort of material we are seeking to make the publication more readable , ’ added Mr Stewart , an air frame fitter at Alanbrooke Barracks , Topcliffe , who had six years ' service in the Royal Navy and is a TA member with 124 Recovery Co. at Newton Aycliffe . |
| 13 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |
| 14 | Lee had 10 years at Charlton before making the switch to the north east to join the Geordies two months ago for £700,000 . |
| 15 | NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago . |
| 16 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 17 | Older workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs in today 's labour market simply because they belong to a generation which had fewer years of schooling . |
| 18 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 19 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 20 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 21 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 22 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 23 | I did one exam before I went up , then had three years at Oxford with just the final exams at the end . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 25 | He had three years in the Civil Service after Oriental Languages at Cambridge . |
| 26 | She had three years as an Operational Research Assistant for British Rail , then was ‘ hijacked into teaching Maths ’ in Nairobi when her husband was moved there , then retrained as a secretary . |
| 27 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 28 | These had many years earlier been started by Ffabian , Clocker , Hawkins , Gibson and Hagrig ( M. B. Donald includes the name Haukriggs ) and others . |
| 29 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 30 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |