Example sentences of "seven years [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And while were doing that , we should thank Mary for her seven years stint that she 's done on .
2 However , when a huge ecstacy laboratory was raided in 1977 the drug was banned and listed as ‘ Class A ’ — which means that the maximum penalty for possession is seven years imprisonment and an unlimited fine .
3 On indictment however , the maximum penalty is seven years imprisonment and an unlimited fine .
4 If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen …
5 However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes .
6 This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular .
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