Example sentences of "seven years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places . |
| 2 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 3 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 4 | He had just spent seven years in Spain as papal nuncio and made the acquaintance of Caldéron ; the setting is Spanish and the romantic element is stronger . |
| 5 | At the age of 29 , apart from a reputation for wild behaviour , Modigliani had little to show for his seven years in Paris . |
| 6 | Raymond Oxborough , 30 , of Headingley , Leeds , was jailed for seven years in September for the rape and manslaughter of Kathleen Lillyman , 61 , in March last year . |
| 7 | During seven years in America , he held many jobs , was an activist in socialist , Irish , and Italian circles , a co-founder in 1905 of the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World , and founder in 1907 of the Irish Socialist Federation and in 1908 of the Harp newspaper . |
| 8 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 9 | The Judge said , " You may not be hanged for your crime , you must be sentenced to seven years to his Majesty 's colonies in Virginia , where your bond will be purchased , and you will work as a purchaser directs for seven years in Virginia . " |
| 10 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 11 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 12 | They were also told the penalty for non-compliance was up to seven years in prison and an unlimited fine under Section 77 of the financial Services Act . |
| 13 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 14 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
| 15 | Rhee joined the Independence Club soon after his conversion to Christianity ; he was arrested and spent seven years in prison . |
| 16 | On Jan. 24 , 1990 , in Miami Dade Circuit Court , Judge Joseph P. Farina sentenced William Lozano to seven years in prison for the manslaughter of two unarmed black men in January 1989 . |
| 17 | ( The maximum penalty for each offence was seven years in prison and a HK$500,000 fine . ) |
| 18 | He escaped from Crumlin Road prison in Belfast in 1981 , but subsequently spent more than seven years in prison in the Republic for the breakout . |
| 19 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 20 | I was , for my final seven years in Rotherham , working at a hospital for the mentally handicapped . |
| 21 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's good that we 've done well — I 've really enjoyed it , ’ says Charlton , seven years in charge now . |
| 23 | They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday . |
| 24 | Sukarno was included as the populist leader of the masses ( his seven years in exile notwithstanding ) ; Hatta was chosen as a cosmopolitan intellectual ; Jaji Mas Mansur was former chairman of Muhammadiyah ; and Dewantoro was an educationist , sponsor of national schools on similar lines to Tagore . |
| 25 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 26 | Up to seven years in practice . |
| 27 | He spoke of himself as a hapless , hopeless , helpless male , seven years in thrall to an unknowing , uncaring , unattainable She . |
| 28 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 29 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 30 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |