Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 2 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 3 | To date this operation seems to be free of cancer risk although one case of cancer has been reported seven years after operation . |
| 4 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 5 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 6 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 7 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 8 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 9 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 10 | A LONELY bachelor who died in his bath has been found four years later . |
| 11 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 12 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 13 | The dispute should have been settled 53 years ago when the 1930 Reservoirs Act ruled that the owners of all reservoirs containing more than 23 million litres must have them inspected and repaired regularly . |
| 14 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 15 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 16 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 17 | The flats had been built ten years earlier and showed wear badly . |
| 18 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 19 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 20 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 21 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 22 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 23 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 24 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 25 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 26 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 28 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 29 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 30 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |