Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] year ' " in BNC.

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31 Although the Police Federation welcomes the Bill , it would prefer the basic offence of taking away without consent possibly to incur the same penalty as was available until 1988 , of up to three years ' custodial sentence .
32 Failure to observe the ban was punishable by up to three years ' imprisonment .
33 The ban on sale or display is backed by tough penalties , including a heavy fine and up to three years ' imprisonment .
34 But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment .
35 Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person .
36 Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia .
37 On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment .
38 In England , prior to 1983 , local authorities could receive up to 3 years ' worth of joint finance money .
39 They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap .
40 Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time .
41 Look out for this years ' Lillywhites evening in November , and see if you can be a lucky winner .
42 Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced .
43 A review of compliance should be carried out in two years ' time .
44 Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time .
45 Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows .
46 The arrests gave Seth a record of at least nine drink driving incidents , leading the judge to order him into Alcoholics Anonymous and on to two years ' probation .
47 The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience .
48 Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time .
49 I do not know the latest medical prognosis of how long he will live , but perhaps he is hoping not to be around in 30 years ' time when the papers become available .
50 ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’
51 ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’
52 ‘ How long it is right for both me and the bank to do the job is not something we are considering at present , ’ he says , ‘ but I would be surprised if I was still here in 16 years ' ; time . ’
53 I would put pretty well everything into making sure that er that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time .
54 As I said at the beginning I love a challenge and I would put pretty well everything into making sure that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time .
55 That , if you spend the span of your life making sure that you 'll still be here in twenty-five years ' time , you 're wasting your life away .
56 Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry .
57 Now that 's , that 's perfectly valid but if the business actually improves , it takes off , you could have this advantage to , to do it over a shorter period of time , maybe in ten years ' time when business is really
58 The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years ' abstinence .
59 And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history .
60 ‘ If we 're chatting again in ten years ' time , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd almost certainly be in this cabin , but we might need some new cushions by then . ’
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