Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants those years in jail allowed against the life sentence he got for the M60 machine-gun murder of SAS captain Herbert Westmascott in May , 1980 . |
| 2 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 3 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 4 | Two of them were executed , the third received 30 years in jail . |
| 5 | Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy Mendoza , both serving 30 years in prison for killing six Jesuit priests in 1989 , will be released under the amnesty . |
| 6 | Prosecutors agreed not to go ahead with the case , in return for Chieke pleading guilty to separate , less serious matters , for which he is now serving 12 years in prison . |
| 7 | A story in today 's People says that Tyson , serving six years in prison for rape , has signed a deal with British promoter Frank Warren . |
| 8 | He is likely to serve six years in prison |
| 9 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 10 | Only two other " reformed terrorists " convicted of murder had ever been pardoned in West Germany : Klaus Jünschke [ see p. 28922 ] , who was released on July 16 , 1988 , after serving 16 years in prison and Manfred Grashof [ ibid. ] , who was released on March 1 , 1989 , after serving 17 years . |
| 11 | Judith Ward , jailed for the M-sixty-two IRA coach bombing in nineteen seventy-four , has been released on bail by the Appeal Court after serving eighteen years in jail . |
| 12 | If she is arrested for anything , however trivial , during that time , she is likely to have to serve two years in prison plus whatever sentence her new offence would attract . |
| 13 | Then came two years in Malaya , where she assisted her husband who was Director General of Information , before returning to Oxford . |
| 14 | Under a tightening financial screw the market crashed in three days ( simulating three years in reality ) . |
| 15 | Life expectancy in 1990 averaged 52.6 years in Africa and 72.8 years in Europe . |
| 16 | Now we can plan 2 years in front of ourselves . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 18 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 19 | A fit and powerful man , a sportsman who also published The Young Cricketer 's Tutor ( 1833 ) by John Nyren [ q.v. ] , the first cricketing classic , he boasted sixty years in London without a headache . |
| 20 | Our congratulations to Mordaunt-Short Ltd. , who are currently celebrating 25 years in business . |
| 21 | It was decided also that if any person was to win 6 years in succession , he would be presented with the trophy to keep ; so far it appears to be an impossible goal as in the intervening 266 years , no person has won more than once . |
| 22 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 23 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 24 | For an ordinary assault , Mr Mitchell would have got two years in jail . |
| 25 | In 1790 Rushout visited Italy and spent eight years in Rome between 1792 and 1800 as an attaché to the ambassador to the king of Naples . |
| 26 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 27 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 28 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 29 | Partly educated by a Jesuit , he spent some years in Rome , and rendered services to Pope Gregory XVI , but later he left the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 30 | Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village . |