Example sentences of "[prep] 15 year [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | OLIVE Booth says goodbye to friends and colleagues on her retirement as a lithographer after 15 years ' service in the decorating department at Tuscan . |
2 | To the right lithographer Enid Randles bids farewell to friends and colleagues at Eagle Pottery after 15 years ' service . |
3 | Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) . |
4 | Jim is an Ipswich resident of 15 years ' standing . |
5 | THE unveiling of a plaque by the Mayor of Winchester , Captain Richard Bates , at the area close to Alresford Pond known as The Soke , on Saturday , marked the end of 15 years ' endeavour by the Alresford Society . |
6 | The company thinks that the ore in the new area runs to about 2 million tonnes , which doubles the mine 's existing reserves and would guarantee a total of 15 years ' production . |
7 | What 's more , Bill has had the benefit of 15 years ' experience in roomset photography for his advertising clients . |
8 | The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years ' imprisonment imposed in 1981 . |
9 | The President , who had to have a minimum of 15 years ' professional political experience , would chair Cabinet meetings and would be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces . |
10 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
11 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
12 | Mohamed Abbad was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment on charges including conspiracy to overthrow the government and possessing leaflets aimed at disturbing internal security . |
13 | People 's Republic of China Father Jin Dechen : the 71-year-old Catholic Vicar-General of Nanyang diocese , Henan Province , he was sentenced in July 1982 to 15 years ' imprisonment for ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ offences . |
14 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
15 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
16 | The Head of State commuted the sentences to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
17 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment as his accomplice . |
18 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
19 | Nicolae Andruta Ceausescu , the younger brother of executed former President Nicolae Ceausescu , was sentenced by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court to 15 years ' imprisonment and demoted . |
20 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment by an Iraqi military court on March 10 [ see p. 37332 ] , was unexpectedly freed on July 16 . |
21 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
22 | 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 . |