Example sentences of "have for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 2 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 3 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 4 | The anniversary of Pinochet 's coup which overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 , still commemorated as a public holiday on Sept. 11 ( the Senate having for the third consecutive year rejected a bill to abolish this holiday ) , was marked by a 21-gun salute by the military . |
| 5 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 6 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 7 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 8 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 9 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 10 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 11 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
| 12 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 13 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 14 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
| 15 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 16 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
| 17 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 18 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |