Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 2 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 5 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 6 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 7 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 8 | In what Kohl described as " a terrible defeat " for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg , Germany 's richest state , the party lost the absolute majority it had held for 20 years . |
| 9 | Well , Christmas was great but now it 's gone for another year . |
| 10 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |