Example sentences of "up [prep] [num] year in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |
| 2 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 3 | Hundreds of Afghan political prisoners have reportedly been held without charge or trial for up to nine years in interrogation centres and segregated prison blocks operated by the Ministry of State Security . |
| 4 | A court on Oct. 13 , 1989 , sentenced the six members of a Lebanese assassination team to up to eight years in prison for smuggling arms , including Sam-7 missiles , into the island . |
| 5 | He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 6 | The legislation was re-drafted , however , to stipulate that to perform , procure , or supply the means for , an illegal abortion was a third degree felony and thus punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $5,000 . |
| 7 | Offenders will be liable to serve up to five years in prison and could face unlimited fines and driving bans . |
| 8 | He is accused of making a false statement prior to entering the US , which carries a sentence of up to five years in jail . |
| 9 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 10 | The Chamber of Deputies introduced an amendment which meant that politicians discovered making payments in order to secure votes could be sentenced to up to six years in prison . |
| 11 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |
| 12 | There has been a particular concentration on measures for young people to the extent that many who leave school at sixteen can expect up to two years in government schemes which combine work experience with training . |
| 13 | Those who break the law face up to two years in jail , although a pregnant women herself is exempt , even if she carries out an abortion on herself . |
| 14 | Fraudulent acts would be tried as misdemeanours and punished by up to two years in prison with or without hard labour . |
| 15 | Doctors performing illegal abortions and their assistants would have faced up to two years in prison , although the woman undergoing an abortion would not have been punished unless she had performed it herself . |
| 16 | The accused face up to two years in prison and fines of up to five million francs for insider trading if convicted . |
| 17 | Carl Jacobson faces up to 10 years in prison for relaying bribery money to the US navy official responsible for awarding lucrative contracts to WedTech , a New York contractor , and United Chemcon , a Lancaster , Pennsylvania company associated with Mr Guerin 's International Signal and Control Corp . |
| 18 | He could face up to 10 years in prison . |
| 19 | Penalties have also been revised and those who cause death by dangerous driving or driving under the influence face up to 10 years in prison , an unlimited fine and a minimum 2 years ’ disqualification . ’ |
| 20 | Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years . |
| 21 | On April 20 the Higher Court of Justice overturned the December 1991 rulings of the Higher Military Court of Justice on members of the former Romanian Communist Party politburo ; the original sentences on manslaughter charges were cancelled and the charges , in connection with the suppression of the December 1989 uprising in Timisoara , were changed to complicity in or attempted " aggravated murder " ; sentences of up to 16 years in prison were handed down . |
| 22 | District courts had the power to inflict punishment of up to one year in prison , fifty lashes , a fine of one hundred pounds , or any two of the above . |
| 23 | Furthermore , a professional in the financial sector who failed to exercise " due care " in obtaining the identification of customers could incur an unspecified fine or a term of up to one year in prison . |
| 24 | Organizers of a strike could face up to one year in prison or two years in a corrective labour camp , while participants would be liable to summary dismissal from their employment and a fine of up to Rbs3,000 ( about US$5,000 at the official rate ) . |
| 25 | ACTOR Gerard Depardieu 's son faces up to four years in jail if found guilty of drug pushing . |
| 26 | He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol . |
| 27 | The agent which causes the scrapie disease in goats and sheep can survive for up to three years in soil , say researchers at Maryland University . |
| 28 | Jilted Griffin , who faces up to three years in jail , was arrested after tracking Lynn Oddo to a flat in California . |
| 29 | The 5,000 British expatriates , many of whom have worked for up to 15 years in Libya , see the ban on flights as just another of the travails of doing business in an unstable but lucrative market . |
| 30 | Police arrested him with 14 ounces of the drug in January and he now faces up to 25 years in jail . |