Example sentences of "have [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 2 | Ken Doyle , Vice-President , has completed 17 years ' service on the Executive Committee since first being elected in 1973 as Wexford Area Secretary . |
| 3 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 4 | George has completed 40 years ’ service with the company working in various locations and all his friends and colleagues gathered at Southall to wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 5 | Geoff has completed 50 years service with Rolls-Royce and associated companies , a record unlikely to be beaten in these modern enlightened times . |
| 6 | Ron Gallacher , Production Director , has completed twenty-five years service with Lyles Carpets . |
| 7 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 8 | For example , employers can now pay full pension , without actuarial reduction , at any age between 50 and 70 , provided an employee has completed 20 years ' service with the organisation . |
| 9 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 10 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 11 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 12 | No matter , because of the agreement , the aluminium company has enjoyed 13 years so far of the theoretical value of the plutonium which has not been produced . |
| 13 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 14 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 15 | Margaret Hamlet 's daughter , Carina , has endured 10 years of painful operations with a cheerful smile and is preparing for surgery again at a pioneering orthopaedic hospital , near the Clwyd/Shropshire border . |
| 16 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 17 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 18 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 19 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 20 | DELTIC No. 9019 ( 55019 ) ‘ Royal Highland Fusilier ’ presently preserved on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough , has celebrated 10 years under the ownership of the Deltic Preservation Society . |
| 21 | A superb mimic , Hopkins has had two years of varied non-stop work , which he loves because ‘ I come alive , I feel it enriches me ’ . |
| 22 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 23 | John Smith has had four years to make sure his facts and figures were right . |
| 24 | Previously he has had nineteen years experience as a Commercial Manager and Senior Purchasing Executive with Anderson Strathclyde in Glasgow . |
| 25 | A place which has had 500 years of prayer . |
| 26 | The industry has had 26 years grace for other forms of advertising . |
| 27 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
| 28 | And West Germany of course , has had ten years of massive growth in nuclear power , I do n't hear the Green movement pressing us to imitate that ; they want the end result but they 're not prepared to wield the means . |
| 29 | Camilla has had 20 years of friendship with Prince Charles and she is not prepared to do anything else which could put that at risk . |
| 30 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |