Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 2 | The two banks had agreed that BBV should be co-chaired for four years by a member from each side ( the other co-president being José Angel Sánchez Asiaín — Banco de Bilbao ) , but Banco de Bilbao was anxious to appoint a single president . |
| 3 | A hundred and fifty films , television and video productions they 've attracted in four years . |
| 4 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 6 | However , the full effect of this will not be felt for four years since the government has provided resources to cushion the transfer from rates to the community charge . |
| 7 | If the application is successful , a patent will be granted for four years initially and may be renewed , annually , up to a maximum of twenty years from the date the application is filed ( the priority date ) . |
| 8 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 9 | In 1975–90 in Scotland 25% of children had grommets reinserted within four years of their first operation , and children have had grommets inserted up to 14 times ( data obtained from Scottish morbidity records , Information and Statistics Division , Common Services Agency , Edinburgh ) . |
| 10 | When the boy drew his horse in triumphantly beside him , he felt more pride , more sense of achievement than he had felt in four years of high-powered business dealings . |
| 11 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 12 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
| 13 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
| 15 | Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | In February 1992 he was sentenced to four years in prison , which he is currently serving in Sindos Military Prison near Thessaloniki . |
| 17 | The evidence against Sukarno was flimsy and when he was eventually sentenced to four years ' imprisonment in December 1930 one eminent Dutch professor , J.M.J. Schepper , condemned the verdict as violating the great Dutch legal tradition . |
| 18 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 19 | Li was sentenced to four years in prison , two years for each count , and ordered to pay both the alleged HK$865,000 ( US$110,000 ) profit he had made from the sale of the shares , and the estimated US$1,300,000 in court costs . |
| 20 | Today they were each sentenced to four years imprisonment . |
| 21 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 22 | Mr Guo , 27 , also a prominent dissident sentenced to four years in prison , was scheduled to be released on 3 June , 1993 . |
| 23 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
| 24 | Two were sent back and the third was sentenced to four years in jail in Sweden . |
| 25 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 26 | The component parts of the multiplier have been agreed as four years for the period up to the age of nineteen when he leaves school and thirteen years thereafter Mrs doctor and Mr Paul 's headmaster agree that Paul needs an enabler at school during school hours , that is classroom hours , an enabler is in effect a classroom assistant who works with him on a one to one basis to ensure that he can participate in lessons . |
| 27 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |
| 28 | In the USA in the 1970s a middle-class child raised through four years at college cost $74,000 and $145,000 if the wife 's opportunity costs were included as well ( Espenshade 1980 ) . |
| 29 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 30 | Compared with four years ago , Debbie is improving . |