Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 2 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 3 | The programme of re-organisation and expenditure reductions which followed the review of the Society 's activities during the Autumn of 1991 has yielded the first full year of financial benefits during 1992 and these are reflected in the increased surplus . |
| 4 | In 1184 , fourteen years before Innocent 's accession , Lucius III had issued the first curial pronouncement on heresy in the decree " Ad abolendam heresam " . |
| 5 | The man known as El Matador by his rivals , for his uncompromising attacking style behind the wheel , had won only three previous World Championship events this year , but those have included the last two rallies , Catalonia two weeks ago and now the RAC . |
| 6 | In the mayoral elections in Rio de Janeiro , César Maia of the PMDB defeated Benedia da Silva of the PT , who in 1987 had become the first black woman member of the Congress . |
| 7 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 8 | Wigan50 Bradford Northern8 TO THE acclamation of their ecstatic supporters , Wigan triumphantly paraded the Championship Trophy around Central Park after this formality of a victory over relegation-haunted Bradford Northern had confirmed a third successive Stones Bitter title for this peerless team . |
| 9 | Best had spent the last two weeks preaching that Bangor could score in Nicosia . |
| 10 | Shinto 's resignation from NTT in December 1988 had marked the first major development in the Recruit affair , a scandal which had involved the purchase of influence by Recruit chairman Hiromasa Ezoe , in return for the provision of cheap pre-flotation shares in a Recruit subsidiary to leading figures within of the country 's political , administrative and economic spheres . |