Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |
| 2 | Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra González resigned on Jan. 12 after eight years in office ; as of the end of January he had not been replaced . |
| 3 | Unemployed after many years in government service , he wrote his handbook of advice to new rulers in an attempt to win a job with the incoming Medici administration . |
| 4 | The imprisonment of prisoners of conscience , unfair trials of political prisoners , lengthy detention without trial , ill-treatment of detainees , possible extra-judicial executions and excessive use of the death penalty have become prevalent in recent years in Tibet . |
| 5 | Gerard Harte , 27 , was convicted and sentenced by a Dutch court on April 2 to 18 years in prison for the Roermond murders of May 1990 , when the IRA had admitted responsibility for shooting two Australian tourists mistaken for UK service personnel [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 6 | The Commission , which was set up in 1991 after a series of miscarriage of justice cases culminating in the release of the Birmingham Six after 16 years in prison , reported today . |
| 7 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had both been sentenced in February 1991 to 13 years in prison for their role in the June 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations [ see pp. 38008 ; 38097 ] . |
| 8 | Mr Wang , 23 , was sentenced on 26 January , 1991 to four years in prison and one year 's deprivation of political rights for counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement . |
| 9 | Ershad had been sentenced in June 1991 to 10 years in prison for illegal arms possession [ see pp. 38288-89 ] , and faced further charges of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 10 | The man who came to personify the recklessness and corruption at the centre of the S&L scandal , Charles Keating Jr , 68 , was sentenced on April 10 to 10 years in prison and was fined $250,000 . |
| 11 | If one takes simply the early industrial period , up to about 1820 , it is possible to show that almost one third of rural households contained servants , typically young people in their early teens who left home to spend about 10 to 15 years in service before marrying . |
| 12 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 13 | The mean age of the population increased from 32 to 35 years in men and from 35 to 39 years in women during this period . |
| 14 | They remained disassembled for several years in storage awaiting a studio decision on their fate . |
| 15 | Even without the change of Government which brought Labour to power in October 1964 after thirteen years in Opposition , the Royal Commission on the Penal System would have been grievously hampered by its over-ambitious terms of reference and a divided membership . |
| 16 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |
| 17 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 18 | Under a law approved by the government on Oct. 29 , schoolchildren as young as 14 caught cheating faced 5 to 10 years in prison . |
| 19 | Hiss denied the charges and unsuccessfully sued Chambers for libel ; then he in his turn was tried for perjury and sentenced in January 1950 to five years in prison . |
| 20 | A former agent for British military intelligence and member of the UDA , Brian Nelson , was sentenced on Feb. 4 to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 20 charges , including five of conspiracy to murder . |
| 21 | Yahweh Ben Yahweh , the founder of the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh — a large black religious sect and multi-faceted business empire — was sentenced on Sept. 4 to 18 years in prison for ordering the murder of 14 " white devils " and wayward disciples ; Yahweh and six followers had been convicted in May of federal conspiracy charges . |
| 22 | After around ten to fifteen years in practice , successful barristers can consider applying for promotion to Queen 's Counsel , known as ‘ silk ’ from the material of which the QC 's formal gown is made . |
| 23 | No one but an old Londoner who has been born and bred and has lived for 50 to 60 years in London can have any idea of the extent of the change . |
| 24 | Four members of ETA 's " Madrid commando " , José Ignacio de Juana , Antonio Troitiño Arranz , Inmaculada Noble and Iñés del Río Prada , were sentenced on Nov. 29 to 348 years in total for their part in the murder of three Army officers , including Ricardo Sáenz de Inestrillas , in June 1986 [ see p. 34825 ] ; one other , Estebán Estebán Nieto , was acquitted . |
| 25 | The mean age of the population increased from 32 to 35 years in men and from 35 to 39 years in women during this period . |
| 26 | Pure Bouzy Champagnes , though profuse in number , are consistently high in quality and often improve over a period of eight to ten years in bottle . |
| 27 | Oliver Tambo , president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , returned to South Africa on Dec. 13 after 30 years in exile , marking a further step in the ANC 's return to a full political role in the country . |
| 28 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 29 | The specific accords , which range from five to 10 years in duration , encompass high-end , open-systems products based on the IBM RISC ; networking and interoperability ; specific operational and purchasing agreements ; technology co-operation and licensing ; manufacturing ; and portable personal computers from Zenith Data Systems . |
| 30 | Fees collection work has continued at a high level since the acceptable age of a fee note in a complaint was reduced from five to two years in November 1991 . |