Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice . |
| 2 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 3 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 4 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 6 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 7 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 8 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 13 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 14 | Deductions are made from 52,000 Scots ' benefits to pay off fuel debts . |
| 15 | So we 're talking about two weeks ' time , that 's two weeks Thursday . |
| 16 | JAGUAR car workers are to put in nine hours ' overtime each week to complete the biggest single car order in the company 's history . |
| 17 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 18 | A review of the project will be made in twelve months ' time . |
| 19 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 20 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 21 | Well , you 'll be flying in seven months ' time . |
| 22 | The supply deal could be terminated at three months ' notice . |
| 23 | Today the ‘ A ’ team take the field against county champions Essex at Lord 's , the opening fixture in a first-class season which will still be running in 22 weeks ' time . |
| 24 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 25 | Dinner can be provided at twenty-four hours ' notice , and in addition , your hosts will recommend local pubs and restaurants . |
| 26 | Council employees will be restricted to twenty-six days ' paid leave for duties as councillors . |
| 27 | THAT her divorce from Prince Andrew will be finalised in two years ' time . |
| 28 | The winner will be announced in six weeks ' time and both the winning plumber and the nominator will receive holidays to Majorca . |
| 29 | The winner will be announced in two months ' time . |
| 30 | The Minister has also criticised our lack of proposals for individual units , but when we table questions to get information on which to base proposals , which perhaps we will be implementing in six months ' time , we can not get proper answers from the Government . |