Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [num] years [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 2 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 3 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 4 | So we recommend an inquiry — in three to five years ' time into the extent to which card users ( in particular , users of more than one credit card ) are using their cards to spend more than they judge prudent . |
| 5 | The UK government lodged a strong protest on Sept. 2 after a UK national , Martin Wainwright , was sentenced on Aug. 31 to 10 years ' imprisonment on charges of illegally entering Iraq from Turkey . |
| 6 | Guinness brands were also reintroduced into Argentina during 1992 after ten years ' absence . |
| 7 | The only group of workers to achieve shorter hours by legislation were the miners , who were granted an eight-hour day in 1908 after forty years ' campaigning . |
| 8 | In what had become known as " the couscous connection " , the President 's brother , Moncef Ben Ali , was sentenced in absentia by a French court on Nov. 17 to 10 years ' imprisonment for laundering drugs money after being caught at Orly airport in Paris with a suitcase full of banknotes . |
| 9 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 10 | Assistant teacher Habib Ben Malek was sentenced in the same trial in 1977 to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 12 | Pathe , epitomised by its crowing cockerel and mildly patronising commentaries , stopped producing newsreels in 1970 after 75 years ' coverage of world events because of the decline of the film industry and a change in cinema audience tastes . |
| 13 | A former chairman and managing director of Mackinnon Mackenzie , Sandy Oag retired in 1973 after 27 years ' service . |
| 14 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 15 | On 6 March 1991 her appeal against the tribunal 's findings was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn but they altered her sentence to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 16 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 17 | Clause 2 recommends that the maximum penalty for assisting a prisoner to escape should be increased from five to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 19 | Anyone publishing confidential information relating to " national defence issues " would be liable to five to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | That contract was for ten albums , which , at Oldfield 's work rate , could amount to fifteen to twenty years ' work . |
| 21 | Huang Hwa , leader of the " New County Alliance " faction of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party , was sentenced on Dec. 8 to 10 years ' imprisonment after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " . |
| 22 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 23 | Stepan was sentenced on July 9 to four years ' imprisonment for abusing the powers of a public official and inciting others to commit the same offence . |
| 24 | Yesterday it said the issue would mature in 23 to 28 years ' time , which will make it the longest-dated gilt available in the market . |
| 25 | A military court on Dec. 9 handed down sentences ranging from 15 to 24 years ' imprisonment for " aggravated murder " ( rather than the original charge of genocide ) on eight out of 21 former communist officials and Securitate secret police accused of responsibility for the action against demonstrations in Timisoara in December 1989 and the killing of nearly 100 people . |
| 26 | People 's Republic of China Father Jin Dechen : the 71-year-old Catholic Vicar-General of Nanyang diocese , Henan Province , he was sentenced in July 1982 to 15 years ' imprisonment for ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ offences . |
| 27 | The dam , completed in 1890 after nine years ' work , is 390yds long and 127′ thick at the base . |
| 28 | But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent . |
| 29 | Mrs. Nellie Hawksworth retired in December 1974 after 24 years ' service , first with her husband as joint resident caretaker and after his death as the catering manageress . |
| 30 | Vision is the picture you have of profit in two to five years ' time , and how you 're going to achieve it |