Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 2 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 3 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 4 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 5 | The partnership which we 've built up over many years with you means that I 'm confident that British tax payers and recipients in er dep developing countries are getting the best possible value for money when government supports S C F initiatives and what is true for S C F is true for the many other M G , N G Os with whom we work . |
| 6 | No longer are these words turned into a metal block , and no longer does the creation of that block require the same sophisticated skills as those built up over many years by typesetters . |
| 7 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 8 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |
| 9 | Fisher , 18 , is serving up to 15 years for blasting mother-of-two Mary Jo Buttasuoco , 37 . |
| 10 | There has been a particular concentration on measures for young people to the extent that many who leave school at sixteen can expect up to two years in government schemes which combine work experience with training . |
| 11 | Offenders will be liable to serve up to five years in prison and could face unlimited fines and driving bans . |
| 12 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |
| 13 | He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 14 | Now Havrix , a vaccine given as two initial injections followed by a booster six to twelve months later , will provide up to ten years of immunity . |
| 15 | Those who break the law face up to two years in jail , although a pregnant women herself is exempt , even if she carries out an abortion on herself . |
| 16 | Penalties have also been revised and those who cause death by dangerous driving or driving under the influence face up to 10 years in prison , an unlimited fine and a minimum 2 years ’ disqualification . ’ |
| 17 | The culprits face up to ten years in jail or an unlimited fine . |
| 18 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 19 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 20 | His plan would allow each country a ‘ quota ’ until the end of the next century — a quota Britain would use up in 42 years at its present rate of emissions . |
| 21 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 22 | WHATEVER their politics , Poles expect to wait up to 20 years for a new telephone . |
| 23 | Although Milken could have received up to 28 years in prison , most observers were surprised by the severity of his sentence . |
| 24 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 25 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 26 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 27 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 28 | He could face up to 10 years in prison . |
| 29 | Organizers of a strike could face up to one year in prison or two years in a corrective labour camp , while participants would be liable to summary dismissal from their employment and a fine of up to Rbs3,000 ( about US$5,000 at the official rate ) . |
| 30 | If found guilty , Mr McNamara , who has been charged with mail fraud , wire fraud , and money laundering , could face up to 30 years in jail , the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m . |