Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 5 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 6 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 10 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 11 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 13 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |