Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 2 | As this sub-national programme has developed , it has become apparent that a major ingredient in its success will be the construction of a rolling programme encompassing the specialised needs of all governing bodies . |
| 3 | But as I argued earlier , the various attempts to construct a theory of nationalism have concentrated unduly on the twentieth century , and it has become apparent that a broader historical view needs to be taken if we are to develop an adequate scheme of explanation . |
| 4 | It has become evident that a disturbed metabolism of cholesterol and/or bile salts is a major factor in gall stone formation . |
| 5 | My Department 's spending on training and enterprise has increased two and a half times in real terms since 1979 . |
| 6 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 7 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 8 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 9 | Their first answer has lasted two and a half minutes . |
| 10 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 11 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 12 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 13 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |
| 14 | Lee may have found all that a valuable lesson , but there were times when it seemed Marvin just had n't learned at all . |
| 15 | Many of the concepts explained might have appeared self-evident but a thorough grasp of these basic points is essential for understanding later sections of the book which deal with international banking and finance . |
| 16 | If you are getting income support and you have high fuel charges at a fixed rate , you will not have to pay more than a maximum fixed amount . |
| 17 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 18 | It was too much to hope that any sign of human presence in the tree would have survived two and a half wintry weeks . |
| 19 | Danny Gardiner , from Stroud in Gloucestershire , was alleged to have stolen two and a half thousand pounds in a raid . |
| 20 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 21 | Has n't he noticed that we 've got one and a half million unemployed ? |
| 22 | We 've done a quick calculation of interview sheets that we think we , we need , I need two boxes for Caernarfon , Jan needs three , we 've got four and a half boxes already , we were gon na order two just to be on the same safe , but we 're just looking into erm whether we need , how many we need on the R S I 's on the M sixty three cos we might as well order them all together , save |
| 23 | And we 've got four and a half already |
| 24 | Yeah , well , no it 's a one day course then I 've got four and a half things af , you know follow on |
| 25 | I 've got two and a half beautiful prints in that layer of mud , heading out of the shed . |
| 26 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 27 | then I turned round and says no you have n't you 've got eight and a half weeks and he has n't he 's got twelve and a half . |
| 28 | If you look at the number on the register , I 've got three and a half thousand |
| 29 | A subject I happen to know quite a bit about because we 've got seven and a half million square feet erm in development at the moment in Lutterworth at Magna Park . |
| 30 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |