Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though he has pushed through legislation to outlaw the ‘ sow pen ’ the government is allowing eight years for it to be passed out . |
| 2 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | According to Mordechai Vanunu , who is serving 18 years in solitary confinement , Israel has more than 200 nuclear warheads capable of reaching even the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 6 | Police immediately launched a frantic hunt for Kenneth Lewis , 31 , who is serving seven years for indecent assault and threats to kill . |
| 7 | Justice Desmond Windle ordered at Dublin District Court that Anthony Gerard Sloan , 35 , from Summerville Drive , Belfast , who is serving 20 years for possession of an M-60 machine gun , be handed over to the RUC at the Co Louth border . |
| 8 | The woman is said to have had a relationship with Antonio Luciani , who is serving 20 years for drug offences . |
| 9 | Pardons went also to 64 left-wing guerrillas , but not to Mario Firmenich , founder of the Peronist guerrilla group , Montoneros , who is serving 30 years for murder . |
| 10 | It 's worth up to £4,000 , but would-be murderer Sheila Stroud was allowed out of Holloway Prison , where she 's serving 18 years , and driven to Cheltenham to dispute Mr Stokle 's claim . |
| 11 | Cyril Cusack for example , on the strength of his previous performances , would have made the Doctor a gentle figure , possibly more in tune with Patrick Troughton 's rendering some years later . |
| 12 | Kanisius Publishing and Printing House in Yogyakarta , Indonesia , is celebrating 70 years of community-oriented service to the Church and the public . |
| 13 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 14 | Bernard Jacobson , who is celebrating twenty-five years of activity , is devoting his programme for an entire calendar year to exhibitions of historic and modern British landscape painting . |
| 15 | New Zealand-born Somerville is celebrating 21 years with his own label . |
| 16 | SINGER Paul Gadd is celebrating 20 years as … |
| 17 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 18 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 19 | As of last Wednesday , Giles Milroy -Browne is doing seven years in an open prison , for embezzlement . ’ |
| 20 | He 's doing twelve years , as a matter of fact . ’ |
| 21 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |