How long ...? When ...? Jim Bloggs
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15th August 2005
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Jim Bloggs has been Prime Minister for 6 years.
- How long has he been Prime Minister?
- When did he become Prime Minister?
Jim Bloggs became Prime Minister in 1999.
- How long has he been Prime Minister?
- When did he become Prime Minister?
Jim Bloggs became Prime Minister 6 years ago.
- How long has he been Prime Minister?
- When did he become Prime Minister?
Before that, he had been Minister of Finance for 3 years.
- How long had he been Minister of Finance?
- When did he become Minister of Finance?
Jim Bloggs entered parliament during the Falklands War.
- How long was he in parliament?
- When did he enter parliament?
Jim Bloggs became interested in politics when he was at university.
- How long has he been interested in politics?
- When did he become interested in politics?
Jim Bloggs has been interested in politics since he was at university.
- How long has he been interested in politics?
- When did he become interested in politics?
Jim Bloggs joined the Party at that time.
- When did he join the Party?
- How long has he been in the Party?
Jim Bloggs worked as an accountant before entering parliament.
- How long did he work as an accountant?
- When did he work as an accountant?
At the moment Jim Bloggs has been in Canada for 3 days.
- When is he in Canada?
- How long has he been in Canada?
He has been negotiating with Canada for some time.
- How long has he been negotiating with that country?
- When did he negotiate with that country?
Jim Bloggs intends to come back on Friday.
- When does he intend to come back?
- How long is he going to take to come back?
Jim Bloggs is going to be on holiday for the rest of the summer?
- When is going to leave on holiday?
- How long is he going to be on holiday?