Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 2 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 3 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 4 | The report appeared to confirm rumours which had long circulated to the effect that the CIA had passed on information ( supplied by an informant within the ANC ) which enabled the South African authorities to arrest Mandela , who as an underground activist had evaded arrest for 17 months . |
| 5 | Two patients had experienced diarrhoea for 25 and 27 years respectively , which had remained unexplained . |
| 6 | Sami 's cousin and business associate , Jamal Hamadan , had known Younis for six years . |
| 7 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 8 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 9 | His father King Henry II was a Frenchman from Anjou , the descendant of a long line of counts who had ruled Anjou for two hundred and fifty years . |
| 10 | His military government had ruled Mali for 23 years . |
| 11 | Rashidov , who died in 1983 , was a CPSU politburo member under Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and had ruled Uzbekistan for 24 years during which several major corruption scandals , uncovered in 1988-89 , were perpetrated . |
| 12 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 13 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 14 | Nietzsche 's health had not improved , and in February he had left Basle for two months of convalescence . |
| 15 | In mid-1990 its president and managing director were dismissed after revelations that the firm had issued guarantees for 400,000 million yen in unsecured loans to 40 different companies , of which 100,000 million yen had gone to companies linked to the Inagawa-kai , Japan 's second-largest organized crime syndicate . |
| 16 | It was the worst conditions in which the rally had taken place for 27 years and at one stage a frozen Mr Hands-Heart and his travelling companion had to be lifted out of the car , he added . |
| 17 | Nevertheless Axelrod worked out that , if only somebody had submitted Tit for Two Tats , it would have won the tournament . |
| 18 | By 1915 , 74 local authorities had obtained permission for 105 schemes . |
| 19 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 20 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 21 | She had kept students for seven years now , and was known as one of the university 's favoured landladies . |
| 22 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 23 | If only the delights of San José had held Lori for one more week ! |