Example sentences of "which have [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place which has had 500 years of prayer . |
| 2 | This is also reflected in a soon-to-be released report by the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment which has spent two years studying new economic techniques of valuing the environment . |
| 3 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 4 | It sounds as if an officious enumerator was at work in 1861 ; he insisted on the full name Clementina rather than the pet form Clemmey , which had sufficed ten years earlier . |
| 5 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 6 | The Catholic Church announced on Nov. 27 the closure of its Solidarity Vicariate , the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 , which had devoted 18 years to defending the victims of political repression . |
| 7 | Thus ended an era of electric street transport in Croydon which had lasted sixty years . |
| 8 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 9 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 10 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |