Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun sg] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | THROUGH no fault of its own , the most westerly village in Northern Ireland has suffered a demoralising 20 years of decline . |
| 2 | He was made redundant in 1991 , having bought a house two years earlier . |
| 3 | It reached the South Metropolitan Gas Company , having cleared a wall 132 years from the wicket . |
| 4 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 5 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 6 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 7 | PhD candidates with a Masters qualification have to complete a minimum two years full-time study . |