Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for 12 year " in BNC.

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1 Daily Telegraph We 've moved beyond grazing into gulping Al Rosenfeld , publisher of Frozen Food Age A Czech store manager has been jailed for 12 years for stealing-and eating-nearly £60,000 worth of food .
2 A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years .
3 A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years .
4 Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre .
5 The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant .
6 She 'd been divorced for 12 years .
7 Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda .
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