Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former world featherweight champion has endured a traumatic eight months since the High Court awarded ex-manager Barney Eastwood damages following McGuigan 's criticism of the ill-fated defence against Texan Steve Cruz in June 1986 . |
| 2 | The engine has done a genuine 25,000 miles so if possible I would like to make use of it . |
| 3 | T John Yandell , one of America 's top coaches , has produced a new 60 minutes teaching video for beginners and those wishing to improve their games . |
| 4 | Wimpy International has opened a further four restaurants at the Metro Centre , Gateshead ; Carbis Bay , Cornwall ; Shirley , Hampshire ; and Sudbury , Suffolk . |
| 5 | Mrs Bloomer has offered a one thousand pounds reward for the return of the items stolen . |
| 6 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 7 | Ben Hope 's impressive 3040 feet has become a meagre 927 metres to satisfy Brussels and Luxembourg , who could n't care less . |
| 8 | The UN Environment Programme has announced a further 74 winners of its " Global 500 " award , made annually since World Environment Day in 1987 . |
| 9 | This has yielded a further two contracts . |
| 10 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 11 | It has taken a respectable 15 seats , but Signor Orlando won the personal endorsement of nearly one in five of all voters in Palermo itself . |
| 12 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 13 | The exhibition park has taken a staggering six years to construct and ‘ grow ’ using over ½ million flowers , trees and pot plants . |
| 14 | The jaunt from last night 's Brussels show has taken a nifty eight hours , guitarist Julian Swales is grumbling about his stubble , and Patrick is off and running again , revealing what bargains a young man can get for ten deutschmarks in a darkened back room in Hamburg 's reeperbahn . |
| 15 | He 'd taken a full seven ounces at ten , and in just ten minutes on each breast too . |
| 16 | Even without Jackson , Aberavon chalked up a comfortable 24-0 success to leave the Police rooted to the foot of the table having conceded a massive 180 points in just four games . |
| 17 | Thus , assuming all goes well in this weekend 's national league games , Scotland will have used a mere 16 players during the course of the campaign , Peter Wright 's introduction for the injured Alan Watt proving the only alteration over the four games . |
| 18 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 19 | This two-year-old is already well acquainted with the Midlands track , having scored a comfortable three-and-a-half lengths success there on her latest outing . |
| 20 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 21 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 22 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 23 | And I could n't have chosen a better three weeks to absent myself . |
| 24 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
| 25 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 26 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 27 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 28 | He said McPherson had stopped a few hundred yards on , gone to the boot of his car , returned and suggested they go back to Tarbert . |
| 29 | The barometer had fallen a further ten points to 28.5 . |
| 30 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |