Example sentences of "[num] years for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an initial period ( usually up to 12 months but up to 2 years for some people ) , your line manager will closely monitor your progress . |
| 2 | The term of the loan is approximately 7 — 12 years for industrial projects but can go up to 20 years for infrastructure investments ( these are investments in areas such as energy , transport , and communications which are beneficial to economic expansion in general ) . |
| 3 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 4 | He will appoint a combination team of baby boomers and the old guard , some of whom have waited 12 years for another crack at running the country . |
| 5 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 6 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 7 | Literary fiction may not be big in numbers but it will be big in promotions in preparation for two birthdays — 10 years for Black Swan in September , 12 for Picador in October . |
| 8 | TL typically produces an error term of plus/minus 5–10 per cent of the age , i.e. plus/minus 50–100 years for a TL age of 1000 years , plus/minus 100-200 years for 2000 years , and so on . |
| 9 | The median age of lone mothers in 1978/88 was 24 for single mothers and 32 , 36 , and 45 years for separated , divorced and widowed mothers respectively ( GHS , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | The severity of the punishments , together with the recent sentencing of an artist , Hong Song Dam , to eight years for alleged contact with North Korean agents in West Germany and for sending a slide of a painting to North Korea , fuelled international concern that the Roh government 's record on human rights was deteriorating . |
| 11 | ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end . |
| 12 | In addition , it is normal to put a maximum period during which claims can be made — usually six or seven years for taxation , since that is the normal limitation period , and two to three years for other warranties ; but this obviously needs to be looked at in each case in the light of particular facts , warranties , assets and liabilities . |
| 13 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 14 | The Assembly also approved the draft law on information , providing for prison terms of five to 10 years for publishing " erroneous or tendentious information threatening state security or the national interest " and prison terms of six months to three years for offending Islam or other religions . |
| 15 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 16 | He also granted reductions in prison sentences varying between three months and three years for 1,354 common prisoners . |
| 17 | An Oct. 20 order to " purify " religion , outlawing all but nine Buddhist sects and introducing prison terms of up to three years for those found posing as monks , became law on Oct. 31 . |
| 18 | The factory is sold after three years for 50,000 . |
| 19 | Former England fast bowler Brian Statham , 62 on June 17 , has resigned from the Lancashire committee after 21 years for personal reasons . |
| 20 | ( ii ) Infants — when the age of majority was reduced from 21 to 18 years for most purposes , qualification for sitting in the House of Commons was expressly excluded from its ambit ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s.1(4). s.2 , para.2 ) . |
| 21 | A former Manchester policeman jailed for 17 years for armed robbery and firearms offences has been freed by the Appeal Court . |
| 22 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 23 | The current average was 65 years ( 62 years for developing countries , 50 for the least developed countries and 76 for the developed world ) . |
| 24 | Trial two consisted of crop dusting 21 males aged 22 to 50 years for three consecutive days ( only 12 men remained to be sprayed all three days ) . |
| 25 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
| 26 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 27 | ‘ Good God , she is his senior by more than ten years for one thing . |
| 28 | First , insider dealing is an unpredictable form of reward ; in fact the opportunity to exploit inside information may come only ‘ once every ten years for each listed company . ’ |
| 29 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 30 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |