Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio 4 's excellent Margaret Howard , who presents Pick of The Week ( and has done so for 17 years ) is in the same boat . |
| 2 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 3 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 4 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 5 | This strategy has worked well for two years , reducing delays suffered by our passengers . |
| 6 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |
| 7 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 8 | THERE is more than one fire that has burned constantly for 200 years . |
| 9 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 10 | The Dean gazed affectionately at her : a tall , handsome woman whose company he 'd enjoyed immensely for thirty-five years . |
| 11 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 12 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 13 | Tozer , too , is ex-IBM , having worked there for 13 years . |
| 14 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 15 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 16 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 17 | Tillot-sons , who controlled the Bolton Evening News until 1970 , when it joined a chain , had done so for 104 years . |
| 18 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 19 | A 79 year old woman was referred with left upper quadrant and epigastric pain , which she had had intermittently for 28 years . |
| 20 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 21 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 22 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 23 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 24 | Steel-Maitland had been appointed Party Chairman in 1911 to a post " of cabinet rank " , and had served loyally for four years without pay or reward . |
| 25 | Stephen and he had worked closely for two years now , but there was no question of the men sharing a social relationship , as she and Stephen did with James and Elaine . |
| 26 | Lady Cross , 73 , the wife of the war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross , was repeatedly struck with antique fire irons in the shop in Pimlico , south London , where she had worked part-time for ten years . |
| 27 | The lawyer and his clerk had worked together for many years , and knew and understood each other . |
| 28 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 29 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 30 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |