Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [num] year ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unsecured creditors should agree to accept a down payment of around 35p in the pound for money due to them , and to take the balance in redeemable convertible preference shares in Prior Harwin , to be paid off in four years ' time .
2 I ended up on three years ' probation .
3 Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed .
4 One vice-president is accountable for several strategic business units , each with a president who works with critical tasks of up to 7 years ' duration .
5 After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail .
6 Sometimes they offer up to two years ' rent free ; in other instances a capital sum changes hands .
7 The ruling in Strasbourg yesterday that the complaints are admissible clears the way for a future hearing before the European Court of Human Rights in up to two years ' time .
8 Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment .
9 The more liberal law replaced one from 1867 which declared abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years ' imprisonment .
10 On May 8 the government announced the introduction of the death penalty for those convicted of murder or the attempted murder of magistrates , jurors , government ministers or security force commanders ; at the same time penalties of up to 10 years ' imprisonment and fines of up to GF10,000,000 ( about US$12,500 ) were introduced for the organizers of public demonstrations ending in violence .
11 A NEW vaccine against the infectious liver disease Hepatitis A , ‘ Havrix ’ , has this week been introduced in the UK : a course of two injections in the arm followed by a booster which could give up to 10 years ' immunity .
12 On the following day Barry was charged with possessing crack — an offence punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment — and was released without bail pending a further hearing on Feb. 5 .
13 In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment .
14 ACE provides temporary employment of up to one year 's duration for long-term unemployed adults on projects of community benefit .
15 Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 .
16 On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment .
17 Some 157 demonstrators were subsequently convicted of a range of offences and were sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment .
18 Of the others arrested on 9 October , some were later released , one is awaiting trail and others have been tried and sentenced to up to three years ' imprisonment for , among other things , ‘ illegal association ’ .
19 Failure to observe the ban was punishable by up to three years ' imprisonment .
20 The ban on sale or display is backed by tough penalties , including a heavy fine and up to three years ' imprisonment .
21 Not only does BSL learning apparently take much longer ( ‘ beginners ’ were people with up to three years ' experience ) but only the beginner group showed the normal pattern of understanding being better than production .
22 But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment .
23 Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person .
24 Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia .
25 On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment .
26 In England , prior to 1983 , local authorities could receive up to 3 years ' worth of joint finance money .
27 Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced .
28 A review of compliance should be carried out in two years ' time .
29 Secondly you 'll be creating a bit of inconveniencing to the person who comes back er back in two year 's time to resell .
30 Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time .
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