Example sentences of "[prep] 12 [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The committee also agreed , by 39 votes to 17 , to defer for 12 months consideration of a proposal to close the village school at Abersoch .
2 He expects to raise more money from a small corporations which will pay for 12 months research and development work at the abandoned well .
3 The GDBA provides all the practical and theoretical training required for a City and Guilds kennel staff examination which is taken after 12 months experience .
4 17 On a journey of 12 kilometres Ann walked part of the way and rode a bus for the rest of the distance .
5 Newbridge Networks Corp reports that the Financial Network Association made up of 12 telecommunications companies , has chosen Newbridge to supply network management products for its global financial network : the Association includes Bell Canada Inc and MCI Communications Corp ; construction and testing is due for completion in June , with customer trials and service to follow ; Stentor , the Canadian consortium that includes Bell Canada , is global network administrator .
6 In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] .
7 A response to evening primrose oil was also reported by Schalin-Karrila et al in a parallel-group study of 12 weeks duration with 25 adult subjects .
8 ‘ We 'd love to go outdoors but land is so expensive , ’ laments John , 46 , a naturist of 12 years experience .
9 ‘ Ordered by mandate of the justices that ‘ Masters of ‘ Le Utter Barre ’ practising or hereafter desiring to practise , shall not plead at any bar before they are of 12 years continuance , without leave of the Master of the Bench , on pain of expulsion . ’
10 ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted .
11 It is only its subsequent accounting reference periods that have to be of 12 months duration beginning immediately after the end of the previous accounting reference period and ending on the accounting reference date .
12 Thus the forecast 's window of 12 months rolls forward three months every time the forecast is updated , and the balance of the previous periods ' forecasts still within the new window are automatically updated as well .
13 Some manufacturers had themselves licensed as credit brokers , and in their advertisements offered INTEREST FREE CREDIT to any who purchased their goods — ‘ over a period of 12 months APR 0% ’ .
14 Anne : They 'll be doing it all again in 12 months time do you think things will be different , will Mr Major still be there ?
15 ‘ The board should , however , make clear that his position would be reviewed in 12 months time by the board , led by a new chairman and vice-chairman . ’
16 In 12 months time , however , the emphasis shifts to deficit reduction .
17 Hill , married with two sons , will start his racing career with Williams in the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in 12 weeks time — and admits he has much to learn from the ‘ old professor ’ Prost .
18 Lady Diana said : ‘ In 12 days time I shall no longer be men . ’
19 • Price is per person , based on 12 nights hotel accommodation , for Oct and Nov departures .
20 Prices : up to 12 days £21 , over 13 days £25 .
21 Rabbit skin glue ( one part glue to 12 parts water , leave to soak , then warm in a double boiler ) , can be used in place of the gum .
22 Decision : the sole ground of appeal was that in sentencing the appellant to 12 months detention in a young offender institution , the maximum term for an offender aged 16 , the sentencer had not allowed any discount for his plea of guilty .
23 He was sentenced to 12 months detention .
24 A YOUTH who frightened a teenager into handing over his watch has been sentenced to 12 months detention .
25 Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal .
26 But he admitted allowing under age sex and the smoking of cannabis in his home and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on each charge to run concurrently .
27 Judge Tony Briggs sentenced Cocker to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 12 months and Wild to nine months imprisonment suspended for 12 months .
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