Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 2 | The ministry says it has paid for 6,000 miles since the scheme started in 1986 . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 5 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 6 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 7 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 8 | Yet the Post Office failed to select him , albeit from over 300 candidates , as one of those for the nine sets of special stamps it plans to issue for 1994 . ’ |
| 9 | They have what it takes to exist for millions of years , and that is why they are still here today . |
| 10 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 11 | And when it had trembled for twenty-two |
| 12 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 13 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 14 | An eye movement period started and after it had persisted for 10 minutes , cold water was sprayed on his back . |
| 15 | By March 1983 it had persisted for 11 months . |
| 16 | In what Kohl described as " a terrible defeat " for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg , Germany 's richest state , the party lost the absolute majority it had held for 20 years . |
| 17 | It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 . |
| 18 | But then it does run for 20 nights . |
| 19 | It found that " industrial production actually declined , as the steel sector , beset by falling world demand and heightened competition from abroad , was one of the weakest spots of the economy " ( although it continued to account for 7-8 per cent of GDP ) . |
| 20 | And it 's advertised for four hundred and eighty so I do n't feel you 're gon na knock it down that much for |
| 21 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 22 | The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised . |