Example sentences of "seven year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Yorkshire 's liquidity has held up and should guarantee the county at least another seven years ' existence , time enough for the new management and its overseas players to wave their collective wands . |
| 2 | United Satellites — a consortium of British Telecom , British Aerospace and GEC — has guaranteed the BBC seven years ' service , at £12.2 million per channel per year , from satellites launched on the European Ariane rocket . |
| 3 | Seven years ' meals th'had out o' me . |
| 4 | The Court had reached the conclusion that it should quash the indeterminate sentence and substitute a sentence of seven years ' detention . |
| 5 | A 21-year-old Liverpool man serving seven years ' detention for robbing women working in two Southampton shops was refused leave by the Criminal Appeal Court in London to appeal against his conviction and sentence . |
| 6 | ROSEMARY MOON had seven years ' experience in the domestic appliance industry , both in research and international marketing , before embarking on a freelance career . |
| 7 | From 1971 to 1977 he had also been " Head of Wasdale " , a former one-roomed schoolhouse in the Lake District which he had transformed into the School 's Outdoor Pursuits Centre , guided by seven years ' experience on the Corsica trips between 1966 and 1972 . |
| 8 | Her daughter , Zoe , is in charge of the hairdressing side of the business while Mrs Addison , a colour analyst of seven years ' experience , concentrates on the beauty side . |
| 9 | The YBC 's members are all elected members of the Bar Council under seven years ' call , together with a small number of coopted members . |
| 10 | For this offence and for the proposed suicide-pact offence , the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( CLRC ) recommended a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 13 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 14 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 17 | In November two former Army officers , Adolfo Padilla and Gustavo Díaz , were sentenced by a civilian court to seven years ' imprisonment each for participation in a failed coup attempt on May 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36653-54 ] . |
| 18 | In Baltimore , Maryland , Julian M. Seidel , former president of the First Maryland Savings and Loan company , and James R. Porter , former senior vice-president of the defunct Silver Springs thrift , were sentenced to 12 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively for falsely inflating the worth of their companies to attract depositors . |
| 19 | His sentence was subsequently reduced on appeal to seven years ' imprisonment [ see p. 35327 ] . |
| 20 | Also arrested on June 6 was veteran dissident , the Rev. Moon Ik Hwan , 73 , a Presbyterian minister sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment in 1989 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea . |
| 21 | On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition . |
| 22 | Indamiro Restano and Maria Elena Aparicio , both leaders of the illegal Harmonious Social Democratic Movement , were sentenced to 10 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively on May 26 . |
| 23 | Todor Zhivkov , 81 , Bulgaria 's communist leader from 1954 until November 1989 , was convicted of misappropriation of state property and embezzlement on Sept. 4 and sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 25 | Suicide pact killings are retained ( cl. 62 ) , not as manslaughter but as a separate offence , punishable with a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 26 | With a recent £150 million order from Oman , the company already had about seven years ' work worth around £700 million on their books , which meant neither factory was under threat . |
| 27 | A further significant motion at the meeting on 5 August 1790 called for provision to be made under Parliamentary authority for placing the profession of farriery ( as practised by shoeing-smiths ) on a more respectable footing , by forbidding farriers from practising unless licensed , by preventing , after a limited time , any person from practising farriery who had not served seven years ' apprenticeship under a licensed farrier , and so on . |
| 28 | It has been speculated by Smith that this idea might have been suggested to Bourgelat by the Earl of Pembroke ( 1734–1794 ) , a cavalry officer in the Seven Years ' War . |
| 29 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 30 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |