Example sentences of "up [prep] [num] year [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation .
2 A new contraceptive is being launched which will give women up to five years protection against unwanted pregnancies .
3 And er I 've been with them ever since , just come up to two year period .
4 Act 1974 is liable to unlimited fines and/or up to two years imprisonment after conviction by a Crown Court .
5 LA bonds normally have a maturity of 1 year and 6 days but can be issued for up to 5 years tenor .
6 She looks after children before school and after school , up to eleven year olds .
7 A person committing an offence under s.47 is , on indictment , liable to up to seven years imprisonment , or an unlimited fine , or both .
8 The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation .
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