Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] 12 year " in BNC.
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1 | The Mill has been renovated after 12 years of doing nothing . |
2 | GALLAGHER and Lyle , one of the biggest musical acts of the '70s , has been reunited after 12 years . |
3 | The significance of managerial issues in the NHS has been emphasised throughout 12 years of Conservative government — most notably through the implementation of the Griffiths Report ( 1983 ) and Working for Patients ( 1989 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years . |
6 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
7 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
8 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
9 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
10 | 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 . |