Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 2 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 3 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 4 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 5 | ‘ Donkey has waited for a few minutes . |
| 6 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 7 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 8 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 10 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 11 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 12 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 13 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 15 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 16 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 17 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 18 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 19 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 20 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 21 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |
| 22 | Students from all over the world have gathered for a unique championships . |
| 23 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 24 | We have opted for a single 19″ Triton fluorescent tube in this 2′ tank . |
| 25 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |