Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 2 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 3 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 4 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 5 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 6 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |