Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 He will appoint a combination team of baby boomers and the old guard , some of whom have waited 12 years for another crack at running the country .
2 The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago .
3 Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis .
4 Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago .
5 But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months .
6 The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy .
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