Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] three year ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Jed-Forest signed a £30,000 deal for three years ' backing from the TSB , Melrose will receive a minimum of £10,000 this season from Concept Group , sponsorship which , through bonuses , could rise to £15,000 if they win the national championship and the Border League , and Stewart 's Melville have a season 's £15,000 support from Dial Office Systems . |
2 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
3 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
4 | Although the sentencer had exceeded his powers by passing a sentence of three years ' detention in a young offender institution , the error was automatically corrected by this provision and a lawful sentence resulted . |
5 | Sacheverell 's trial the next spring sparked off widespread rioting in London , and although Sacheverell was eventually found guilty , he received the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching . |
6 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
7 | What will happen to nurses who have trained at the taxpayers ' expense in the national health service but who , increasingly , find themselves unable to get a job after three years ' training ? |
8 | He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail . |
9 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
10 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
11 | The mother has since been married again and divorced and now has a co-habitee of three years ' standing . |
12 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
13 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
14 | In 1854 – 5 the state had spent the equivalent of three years ' income on the war and had accelerated inflation by covering the deficit with paper money . |
15 | Mr Thomson , 44 , of Cherrytree Road , Great Cornard , resigned in February last year after three years ' employment . |
16 | Beneath violent disorder comes the crime of affray ( section 3 ) , now defined in terms of threatening or using unlawful violence towards another , and carrying a maximum of three years ' imprisonment . |
17 | The basic offence in section 1 is that of possessing a firearm without a certificate , an offence which ( despite elements of strict liability ) carries a maximum of three years ' imprisonment . |