Example sentences of "[verb] have [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
2 | A superb mimic , Hopkins has had two years of varied non-stop work , which he loves because ‘ I come alive , I feel it enriches me ’ . |
3 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
4 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
5 | John Smith has had four years to make sure his facts and figures were right . |
6 | Previously he has had nineteen years experience as a Commercial Manager and Senior Purchasing Executive with Anderson Strathclyde in Glasgow . |
7 | A place which has had 500 years of prayer . |
8 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
9 | The industry has had 26 years grace for other forms of advertising . |
10 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
11 | And West Germany of course , has had ten years of massive growth in nuclear power , I do n't hear the Green movement pressing us to imitate that ; they want the end result but they 're not prepared to wield the means . |
12 | Camilla has had 20 years of friendship with Prince Charles and she is not prepared to do anything else which could put that at risk . |
13 | France has had another year of less than normal rainfall , raising fears of drought . |
14 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
15 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
16 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
17 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
18 | And I think it 's got to have one year of really high exposure . |
19 | We happen to have this year ( she is leaving ) a lady who is a qualified teacher and a qualified librarian . |
20 | In contrast to the Hanmers , the Chidlows seem to have experienced years of relentless poverty . |
21 | He is the co-chairman of the museum council of the International Fund for Culture and has written extensively , as well as having had thirty years of work experience with staff at the institute . |
22 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
23 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
24 | Bet She'an is known to have had 7,000 years of continuous settlement : Canaanite , Israelite , Greek , Roman and Byzantine . |
25 | It did have last year . |
26 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
27 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
28 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
29 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
30 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |