Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 2 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 3 | Silence had fallen for almost three weeks and then her father had written again , with the utmost brevity , to say he would review the situation when he saw it and that they could get away after the harvest . |
| 4 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 5 | After a pause , Donna said she and Angelica had talked for maybe two hours between Toronto and Sudbury , and Donna was sure Angelica could n't have murdered Steve , she was lost without him . |
| 6 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 7 | I had slept for almost four hours more , made myself a mug of tea at about nine o'clock and carried it outside while I wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas . |
| 8 | She had slept for almost three hours . |
| 9 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 10 | The state had persisted for over three days now . |
| 11 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 12 | Thus wrote Fuller in a paper published after his death , on which he had worked for over 20 years . |
| 13 | The tribunal had heard evidence that names on nursing rostas included people who had never worked there , and two who had worked for only one day . |
| 14 | Shanti 's mother loved her very dearly , and had tried for nearly two years to cope with the situation where she , as an Indian , had a baby with an African father . |
| 15 | Board of Trade officials had tried for nearly twenty years to change the policy of RPM . |
| 16 | This system of healing was discovered by Edward Bach , a doctor who had practised for over 20 years in London as a consultant , bacteriologist and homoeopath . |
| 17 | He had his ships and politics , she had her piano which she had practised for over twenty years , so now let the dream come true . |
| 18 | He had lived for just 55 minutes after being born , despite intensive efforts in the special care baby unit of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital to revive him . |
| 19 | The bulk of his estate went to his common-law wife , Sarah Dovekin or Dufkin , a former servant of Mrs Manley , with whom he had lived for over twenty years . |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 21 | The boy , Gregory Kingsley , gave evidence that his biological mother , with whom he had lived for only seven months in the eight years prior to the case , had neglected and abandoned him . |
| 22 | The canals of 1900 had existed for over 100 years and during this time had changed but little . |
| 23 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 24 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 25 | He had survived for only three days at Craigtoun Maternity Hospital , St Andrews , and the parents maintained that his death resulted from damage done by forceps before the birth . |
| 26 | He had survived for only three days at Craigtoun Maternity Hospital , St Andrews , and the parents alleged negligence by medical staff , claiming that the baby 's death had resulted from damage done by forceps before birth . |
| 27 | He had waited for over ten minutes and decided that he would give his friend another five minutes before making off home . |
| 28 | But the effluent saga had lasted for nearly eight years and although the court appearances were relatively few and Laura herself never became directly involved , the publicity was unwelcome for a company which claimed the Welsh countryside as the key to its philosophy . |
| 29 | In these circumstances the conditions for unquestioned support for the statutory town planning system , which had lasted for over 30 years , were now considered debatable . |
| 30 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |