Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the job : Long serving worker Lavinia Vale has won an unfair dismissal case against Warrington firm Stubs Welding Limited after 28 years service . |
| 2 | The college 's head of training plans to retire after 30 years service . |
| 3 | If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time . |
| 4 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 5 | You 've got a frown Sandra , on the notice board above the fridge it says this is to be included in next years record of achievement which I presume will have to go into yours as well after my year |
| 6 | The Sheffield Wednesday stalwart insisted last night : ‘ I aim to be still playing at the top when the next World Cup qualifying bid starts in three years time . |
| 7 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 8 | For the majority of the RMS estimates the sample size is 60 observations consisting of 5 years worth of monthly returns . |
| 9 | A vast new Royal infirmary costing one hundred and forty million pounds is to be built on the Southern outskirts of the capital , to open in eight years time . |
| 10 | it 's beautiful this is what I 'm gon na do in ten years time |
| 11 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 12 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
| 13 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 14 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 15 | Today they were each sentenced to four years imprisonment . |
| 16 | Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl . |
| 17 | She was sentenced to two years probation . |
| 18 | He was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment . |
| 19 | 24 year old Ashley Forbes , Commander of the unit was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment . |
| 20 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 21 | He was sentenced to three years house arrest , was released in August 1956 , and lived till his death in 1967 , under guard in his estate . |
| 22 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt . |
| 23 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults . |
| 24 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 25 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 26 | Hereford and worcester will have to wait for at least five years to see if the local government review will split it back into seperate counties , but Gloucestershire may benefit before then , as avon looks like being abolished in two years time . |
| 27 | Hence , it is in the national interest that no further ground be conceded when the ‘ harmonisation ’ agreement is renegotiated in two years time . |
| 28 | An oil company has just started exploratory drilling in the west of the region.If they find enough oil and gas , production on a commercial scale could begin in five years time.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 29 | A barium enema performed at seven years disease duration showed recurrent polyps . |
| 30 | EIRLYS Morgan has retired after 27 years service in the canteen at Penygloddfa primary school , Newtown . |