Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter has with CCG for the past 2 years and also has 20 years experience in servicing ‘ blue chip ’ clients and business development . |
| 2 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 3 | It is not , of course , the only champagne at Tesco ; this particular store has gone quite delightfully dotty this year and now has nearly 50 various champagnes from its own-label bottle ( £8.75 ) to the Dom Perignon . |
| 4 | Porridge was repeated this year and still has a big following inside . ’ |
| 5 | He said that he wo n't return home for another six years and still has 65 countries to visit . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 7 | Now they find themselves alone in later years and often have to rebuild their lives right from scratch . |
| 8 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 9 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 10 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 11 | He 's done more than most in the Greater Ranges in the last ten years and still has the prospect of many more years to come . |
| 12 | It was not until ten years or more had passed that the disastrous side-effects on ruck and maul of the abolition of the old ‘ play the ball with a foot after a tackle ’ law began fully to be felt . |
| 13 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 14 | In contrast to this extensions within the last ten years or so have all been done in cheaper , light weight breeze blocks . |
| 15 | Every five years or so have a glorious clear out and throw all the old |
| 16 | Sanchita Saha , defending , said Mr. Uddin , 29 , had owned the Lal Quila for five years and never had a complaint before . |
| 17 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 18 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |
| 19 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 20 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 21 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 22 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 23 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 24 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 25 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 26 | We 've found out a lot , that bats live for thirty years and only have one baby a year , and usually only have a baby every second year . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 28 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 29 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 30 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |