Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 2 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 3 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 4 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 5 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 6 | But Mr Fallon said : ‘ The charge capping rules allow Northumberland to increase their expenditure from April by five per cent on this year 's budget so there 's no need for cuts of that nature . |
| 7 | Over the coming weeks councillors will attempt to cover the £200,000 loss by finding other areas in this year 's budget where there has been an underspend . |
| 8 | SPEEDWAY : Joe Screen , who won the British under-21 championship in 1990 , will start favourite for this year 's title as he chases a £10,000 bonus from sponsors Homefire . |
| 9 | " Even if you have a copy of the old ( September 1988 ) Catalogue , have a look at this year 's edition as it contains details of 15 new titles and information on many more books , packs , videos and projects . |
| 10 | of this year 's allocation if they wished to do so . |
| 11 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 12 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 13 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 14 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 15 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 16 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 17 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 18 | Until recent years the aim of the librarian , more often than not , was to achieve as large an increase on his previous year 's bookfund as his finance committee would tolerate . |
| 19 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 20 | Prior year comparative figures have been restated to conform to the current year 's presentation where appropriate . |
| 21 | These are taken from the ends of shoots of current year 's growth while still soft and green , during spring to mid-summer for outdoor plants , almost any time under glass . |
| 22 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 23 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 24 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 25 | The offence of ‘ common assault , ’ as it is known , is triable either way , and punishable with six months when tried summarily , but with one year 's imprisonment if tried on indictment . |
| 26 | any sub-lease would be outside the Landlord and Tenant Act and would include a rent review in one year 's time as per their own lease ; |
| 27 | I have completed one year 's retirement although I did n't really retire ! |
| 28 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 29 | Not any year 's thing if we 're brutally honest . |
| 30 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |