Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] year ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 2 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 3 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 4 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 5 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 6 | So we recommend an inquiry — in three to five years ' time into the extent to which card users ( in particular , users of more than one credit card ) are using their cards to spend more than they judge prudent . |
| 7 | The UK government lodged a strong protest on Sept. 2 after a UK national , Martin Wainwright , was sentenced on Aug. 31 to 10 years ' imprisonment on charges of illegally entering Iraq from Turkey . |
| 8 | Guinness brands were also reintroduced into Argentina during 1992 after ten years ' absence . |
| 9 | The only group of workers to achieve shorter hours by legislation were the miners , who were granted an eight-hour day in 1908 after forty years ' campaigning . |
| 10 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 11 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 12 | In what had become known as " the couscous connection " , the President 's brother , Moncef Ben Ali , was sentenced in absentia by a French court on Nov. 17 to 10 years ' imprisonment for laundering drugs money after being caught at Orly airport in Paris with a suitcase full of banknotes . |
| 13 | Both have contracts with the Company terminable at 3 years ' notice . |
| 14 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 15 | Assistant teacher Habib Ben Malek was sentenced in the same trial in 1977 to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 17 | Experts say the pollution in North Bohemia is due to 40 years ' emphasis on heavy industry under communist rule . |
| 18 | Pathe , epitomised by its crowing cockerel and mildly patronising commentaries , stopped producing newsreels in 1970 after 75 years ' coverage of world events because of the decline of the film industry and a change in cinema audience tastes . |
| 19 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
| 20 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 21 | A former chairman and managing director of Mackinnon Mackenzie , Sandy Oag retired in 1973 after 27 years ' service . |
| 22 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 23 | On 6 March 1991 her appeal against the tribunal 's findings was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn but they altered her sentence to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 24 | Clause 2 recommends that the maximum penalty for assisting a prisoner to escape should be increased from five to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 26 | Anyone publishing confidential information relating to " national defence issues " would be liable to five to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 27 | That contract was for ten albums , which , at Oldfield 's work rate , could amount to fifteen to twenty years ' work . |
| 28 | Huang Hwa , leader of the " New County Alliance " faction of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party , was sentenced on Dec. 8 to 10 years ' imprisonment after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " . |
| 29 | How many SSDs will be able to say the same in five years ' time ? |
| 30 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |