Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 2 | The exhibition park has taken a staggering six years to construct and ‘ grow ’ using over ½ million flowers , trees and pot plants . |
| 3 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 4 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I 've had a miserable two years with injuries , but this latest op should do the trick . ’ |
| 6 | But I 'm spun of stronger metal than that : when you 've spent a few thousand years wrestling with magicians determined to enslave you and entire religions devoted to your destruction , you develop ways of bouncing back . |
| 7 | A later commentator says that the plan " had been cherished by them for years " and it could very well have its roots in the Caledonian Press experiment , which had ended a mere eight years earlier . |
| 8 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 9 | I have had a wonderful 10 years , but the financial pressures are mounting and it is time I moved on . ’ |
| 10 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |