Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] [num] years ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 2 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
| 3 | The former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , was sentenced in Dhaka to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " on June 12 after being found guilty by a special tribunal of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 4 | Elena described her feelings on returning to the little town of her birth , San Jose de las Flores , in Chalatenango after three years ' absence . |
| 5 | Mr Hewitt is a member of Bishop Auckland Rotary Club and is north regional president of the YMCA , which is planning to open a residential centre in Darlington in two years ' time . |
| 6 | The next international meeting on endothelins will be held in London in two years ' time . |
| 7 | Five members of the ( then banned ) South African African National Congress ( ANC ) were sentenced in July 1989 in Gaborone to five years ' imprisonment in July 1989 for possessing AK-47 rifles and ammunition . |
| 8 | Another ETA member , Juan Carlos Arruti Azpitarte " Paterra " , was in July 1990 sentenced in Madrid to 26 years ' imprisonment for terrorist offences including murder committed in 1979 . |