Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] year ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Boxing night was time and half and New Year 's Eve was time and half . |
2 | Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) . |
3 | In Baltimore , Maryland , Julian M. Seidel , former president of the First Maryland Savings and Loan company , and James R. Porter , former senior vice-president of the defunct Silver Springs thrift , were sentenced to 12 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively for falsely inflating the worth of their companies to attract depositors . |
4 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
5 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
6 | Indamiro Restano and Maria Elena Aparicio , both leaders of the illegal Harmonious Social Democratic Movement , were sentenced to 10 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively on May 26 . |
7 | It was reported on Jan. 3 , 1991 , that two ETA members , José Antonio López Rúiz " Kubati " , and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " , had been sentenced to 47 and 26 years ' imprisonment respectively for the murder in September 1986 of the amnestied ETA member María Dolores González Catarain " Yoyes " [ see p. 34825 ; for earlier conviction of Fermin see p. 37588 ] . |
8 | Full-time provision includes courses of one to three and four years ' duration , some of which may be studied as separate ‘ end-on ’ courses and many of which provide opportunities for transfer of suitable students to degree courses . |
9 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
10 | Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment . |
11 | There seems to be plenty of confidence between topweight Bonanza Boy in tomorrow 's Coral Welsh National and last year 's winner is now 3-1 joint favourite with Ghofar following two bets of £7,000 to £2,000 with the sponsors . |
12 | They had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating that they had handled nitroglycerine . |
13 | The seven had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating they had handled nitroglycerine . |
14 | As I see it , the difference between Gittel One and this year 's model Gittel is one of attitude . |
15 | A Palestinian , Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni , and a Jordanian , Abdel Fatar Ghadanfar , were sentenced on June 3 by a Frankfurt court to 15 and 12 years ' imprisonment for attempted murder and possession of explosives similar to those involved in the Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988 . |
16 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
17 | Five members of the One Tyrol group were sentenced on Nov. 10 , four of them in their absence , to terms of between two and 15 years ' imprisonment on Nov. 10 for 41 attacks on railway lines , banks and electricity installations in the South Tyrol in 1986-88 . |
18 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
19 | Frantisek Kincl , Interior Minister at the time of the 1989 revolution , his deputy Alojz Lorenc , and Karel Vykypel , the former chief of the counterintelligence service , were convicted by a military court on Oct. 30 of abusing the authority of a public official and sentenced to three , four and 3½ years ' imprisonment respectively . |
20 | Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year . |
21 | Well this year 's capital expenditure will be around twenty five million and last year 's figure was twenty three million the point I was making in the speech was that twenty three million included nine million pounds for the , we must have some static in our nine million pounds for the purchase of freeholds , erm but the capital expenditure this year is spread right across the operation includes introduction of erm re-fits in a number of stores includes expansion in France , investment in systems and hardware and indeed also includes ah about five million pounds for a retail park development which I also referred to the park development on which we have an interest in the sense that we are developing an M F I store . |
22 | On Feb. 25 , two alleged GKN members , Imran Hasan and Hasbi Abdullah were sentenced to seven and five years ' imprisonment respectively on national security grounds . |
23 | Two leading drug traffickers , Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo , were on Dec. 13 , 1989 , sentenced to 116 and 144 years ' imprisonment respectively and deprived of their assets for the murder in 1985 of Enrique Camarena Salazar , a United States Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) official , and his Mexican pilot [ see pp. 33967 ; 36371 ] . |