Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Spence of the DUP , who has served 16 years as Mayor of Ballymena . |
| 2 | Sandy Spence of the DUP , who has served 16 years as Mayor of Ballymena . |
| 3 | Christie will be bridesmaid when Anna Moore , who has served ten years of a life sentence , marries a loyalist killer , Bobby Corry , who is serving life for killing three people in a pub bombing in 1972 . |
| 4 | So what does 1991 hold for the man who has survived several years of mental agony and still found the strength to come smiling through ? |
| 5 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 6 | The liberal in question is journalist Ruth , a South African who has ended seven years of English exile ostensibly in order to visit her elderly father . |
| 7 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 8 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 9 | This is Daphne Sheldrick 's ‘ home ’ for young orphaned elephants in Kenya — the triumph of a remarkable woman who has dedicated 40 years to saving wild animals , orphaned mainly by man 's greed or bloodlust . |
| 10 | Wendy , who has worked eight years with DR , has recently experienced another rush project . |
| 11 | JOHN MAJOR is willing to meet the author Salman Rushdie , who has spent four years under a fatwa assassination incitement by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 12 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 13 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 14 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 15 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 16 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 17 | They can recommend individuals for honours or awards — often the district postmistress who has spent fifty years behind the counter and then receives an unexpected OBE will have been suggested by the local lord lieutenant . |
| 18 | The objective reality of such an energy distribution system is thoroughly documented by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Tokyo , who has spent thirty years researching the subject of Bio-energy and from results of tests conducted over a fifteen-year period qualifies his work in these words |
| 19 | Somebody who has spent 40 years of his life working for the Scottish Transport Group would receive two thirds of his pensionable salary on retirement . |
| 20 | There is genuine wisdom here , and humanity , too , especially in the often moving photography by Mark Edwards , who has spent 20 years tilling this rich visual soil . |
| 21 | CHINA will today release on parole Xu Wenli , a leading dissident who has spent 12 years in prison for taking part in the Democracy Wall movement , human rights campaigner John Kamm said . |
| 22 | She will meet Mrs Jones who has spent twenty years running a shelter for battered cats , and Mrs Jones is there . |
| 23 | Brian , who has spent 24 years with the Group , has held positions in work study and the Personnel Departments at Mason 's Ironstone and Barlaston . |
| 24 | There are more members — and we receive more letters — for Steffi 's fan club service , than for any other player , even Andre Agassi , who has overtaken last year 's previously most popular male player , Stefan Edberg . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Today 's readings are taken from a book called A Cup of Water written by Janet Lacey who has devoted many years of her life to working for Christian Aid . |
| 27 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 28 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 29 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 30 | James Christie , one of the leading figures in the town council of Stirling , had a son in the navy named Francis Christie , who had served six years as a midshipman in the West Indies , and had confidence in his ability to pass the examination for lieutenant . |