Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun prp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 2 | your employee has had SSP for 28 weeks in the PIW |
| 3 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 4 | Some observers are predicting the imminent collapse of the military regime which has ruled Ethiopia for 15 years . |
| 5 | It has run Bavaria for 30 years and the state premiership is in its gift . |
| 6 | But Northern Ireland manager Billy Bingham , who has ignored Rogan for 13 months , has insisted the in-form defender links up with the squad as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Having dismissed Gloucs for 211 Australia raced to 400 all out by close of play with Matthew Hayden , David Boon , Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn all contributing explosive half centuries . |
| 8 | And I cried , I must have cried Kate for two hours . |
| 9 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 10 | His military government had ruled Mali for 23 years . |
| 11 | Rashidov , who died in 1983 , was a CPSU politburo member under Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and had ruled Uzbekistan for 24 years during which several major corruption scandals , uncovered in 1988-89 , were perpetrated . |
| 12 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 13 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 14 | Nietzsche 's health had not improved , and in February he had left Basle for two months of convalescence . |
| 15 | Mr Najibullah , many of his key ministers , elite units of the Afghan army and most of the Pakistan-based Mujahideen groups are members of the Pushtun tribes which have dominated Afghanistan for 200 years . |