Example sentences of "[be] hold for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 2 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 3 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 4 | Many had been held for more than 15 years . |
| 5 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |