Example sentences of "have run for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 2 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 3 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 4 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 5 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 6 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a freezing morning and the Section had run for five miles over muddy paths and swampy fields . |
| 9 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |