Example sentences of "have [verb] a [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , well you have to carry a twelve stone man over a hundred yards , you see , in a certain time , and that is one of the strength tests , erm er these are these are tests that are drawn up to get people in in the initial stages , and then they go on from there . |
| 2 | Er , applications are accepted from all officers who have completed a two year period of probation and no applications are considered whilst an officer is in his probation . |
| 3 | The parents of a girl who was severely handicapped after being starved of oxygen at birth have won a five year battle for compensation . |
| 4 | When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist . |
| 5 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 6 | Anti-hunt campaigners have presented a nine-thousand signature petition to councillors urging them to ban hunting from council owned land . |
| 7 | Vets have performed a two hour operation to save the bird.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 8 | The council have agreed a 10 % salary supplement for staff with language skills ’ ( * ) . |
| 9 | The number of people involved in the sort of work there was er something like twelve to twelve and fifteen people er added up er responsible for A B C. So it did n't make any sense to us to think well if Leeds have got a million pound practice there , why have we got nothing here . |
| 10 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 11 | We have proposed a two stage model of gluten sensitive enteropathy , latent and fully expressed . |
| 12 | Enterprise Inns have signed a five year supply deal with Bass and all their pubs will continue to stock Bass beers . |
| 13 | After successfully completing the academic stage [ law degree , CPE or Diploma in Law ] and the Legal Practice Course you then have to undertake a two year training contract which will enable you to put into practice the knowledge and skills that you have learnt . |
| 14 | So people living on a kind of island along the Southern by pass , have to make a five mile detour by road to get back to their homes from Oxford . |
| 15 | The school was the last to close in 1968 and now primary school children have to make a four mile return journey to Middleton-on-the-Wolds . |
| 16 | To encourge them back to Oxfordshire , BBONT have launched a 2 year project to find out exactly why they disappeared . |
| 17 | British scientists who are working on a pioneering nuclear fusion project , have held a one day strike . |