Example sentences of "year [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 2 | A number of Germans and Danes have either bought or rented land in Scotland to keep the cattle they have bought at sales in recent years or have made management agreements with local farmers pending the lifting of the export ban . |
| 3 | An individual must have been in the business for ten years or have retained shares throughout this period to qualify for maximum relief . |
| 4 | The nine years that had elapsed since she last stood on this spot could have been a dream . |
| 5 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 6 | The ten years that had witnessed this transformation were precisely those occupied by Morrison as secretary of the newly-formed London Labour Party ( LLP ) . |
| 7 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 8 | The extent of her fury disconcerted her fleetingly , fully alive and as fulminatingly intense as ever , despite all the years that had gone by since she had last felt like this . |
| 9 | Having spent years in prison under the old régime , years that had taken their toll and made him look well over seventy , he got up every morning now , threw open the windows of his apartment , and breathed in ‘ the good clean air of freedom ’ . |
| 10 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 11 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 12 | In spite of the years that had passed , I was sure he was my convict ! |
| 13 | Kaplan asked the question ‘ Is one costing system good enough ? ’ and in the years that have followed we have witnessed the response . |
| 14 | On the other hand , a primordial black hole should have almost completely evaporated in the ten billion years that have elapsed since the big bang , the beginning of the universe as we know it . |
| 15 | Having thus briefly examined the background against which the enormous post-war growth in higher education has taken place , we will now examine in detail those developments which have occurred in the three years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared in 1979 . |
| 16 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 17 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 18 | In the sixty odd years that have passed since it was built , the house , like any other house , has mellowed . |
| 19 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 20 | Wharton-Tigar and Klein have not forgotten the incident over all the years that have passed . |
| 21 | In the twenty-nine years that have passed since Lloyd George 's death , he has continued to stir up furious argument amongst historians and biographers . |
| 22 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 23 | He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world . |
| 24 | Out of all the slate mines , of all the years that has gone I 've always worked on a contract . |
| 25 | Although such censorship is not the most common type of censorship in libraries , it is the one in recent years that has threatened to be the most damaging . |
| 26 | They are now indulging in distortion and scaremongering , but they are unable to hide the record of the last 13 years that has caused so much misery to so many people . |
| 27 | In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable . |
| 28 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 29 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 30 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |