Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seles , who has reached the final in 13 of 14 tournaments she has played this year , now faces the winner of the match between America 's Mary Joe Fernandez and Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | From what he has seen this year , he also believes the English game is rather stereotyped . |
| 3 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 4 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 5 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 6 | Previously he has had nineteen years experience as a Commercial Manager and Senior Purchasing Executive with Anderson Strathclyde in Glasgow . |
| 7 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 8 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 9 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |
| 10 | He has spent 10 years living in London and the last four in Liphook . |
| 11 | He has spent 37 years in the service , the last 12 in charge . |
| 12 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 13 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 14 | It has trimmed this year 's forecast by £5m to £235m and lifted next year 's by £20m to £340m . |
| 15 | Certainly , erm , it has changed this year , erm , but the arrangements now are , that we produce our report across the year , with i , and as you can appreciate the report summarises various , of one thing we done during the with officers around the county round the Erm , at the , at the end of November , we commit to writing this report in summary version , which we then discuss with the Chief Executive and the County Treasurer in particular , they take whatever soundings they wish with other offices and then we agree that letter . |
| 16 | For Michael Kay , the present chairman of the RSPCA , it has meant 27 years in the field of animal welfare . |
| 17 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 18 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 19 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 20 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 21 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 22 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 23 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 24 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 25 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 26 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 27 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 28 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 29 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 30 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |