Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of 228 patients with adult coeliac disease , 42 ( 19% ) were diagnosed aged 60 years or over . |
| 2 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 3 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 4 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 5 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 6 | The Commissar , 22 year old Peter Jacobs and 21 year old Nicklo Pedro were sentenced to 14 years . |
| 7 | The hearings , closed to foreign observers , began on Feb. 5 , and on Feb. 12 two of the accused were sentenced to 13 years in prison , but those showing " repentance " were less severely treated . |
| 8 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 9 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 10 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 11 | Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990 , shortly before the two were sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Twenty-six officers were sentenced to death , three peers , including Derwentwater , were executed ; of the rank and file 700 were sentenced to seven years ' transportation to the West Indies . |
| 13 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 14 | Rancher Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment in 1990 for the killing of Mendes in 1988 . |
| 15 | Darli Alves da Silva , a rancher in his early 50s , and his son were sentenced to 19 years in prison for ambushing Mr Mendes at his home in a remote village near Rio Branco . |
| 16 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | On Nov. 10 Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both members of the House of Representatives , were sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty by the State Security Court of membership of the banned Shabab al-Nafeer al-Islami ( Islamic Vanguard Youth ) and of possessing illegal weapons [ see pp. 39118 ; 39166 ] . |
| 18 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 19 | There had to be a clear decision about how to compile the relevant information and evidence and how to select certain areas for audit while others were postponed until later years . |
| 20 | Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years . |
| 21 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 22 | You were born in different years , no you were n't . |
| 23 | There Ernest , Theodore , and Reginald were born within six years , but Edward 's recollections of this time are sketchy . |
| 24 | Could you have a refund of contributions if you were to leave within two years ? |
| 25 | Another recent attempt to produce an incidence curve using 126 patients who were screen positive for polyps , determined that 10% were detected after 40 years of age . |
| 26 | In contrast three-quarters of those under 40 at the time of interview and three-fifths of the middle-aged ( 40–54 ) were employed after three years . |
| 27 | Sixty per cent of the patented innovations in the sample were imitated within 4 years , and patents caused a median rise of some 11 per cent in the ratio of imitation to innovation costs . |
| 28 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |
| 29 | Reformers often worked through sympathetic religious networks in the localities , the names of members of which were known from earlier years ; more important , petitions came increasingly from congregations and denominational organisations of an aroused dissent . |
| 30 | Attempts to control power station emissions in Europe were blocked for five years . |