Example sentences of "to [adj] years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average length of employment of all labour in 1982 was correspondingly double in Japan at eight to eleven years for men and six for women . |
| 2 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 3 | In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman after breaking into her home , but this was reduced to eight years on appeal . |
| 4 | Russell Barkley ( an American psychologist , very experienced in helping parents to manage their children ) suggests more powerful incentives using poker chips ( tokens such as counters , buttons , marbles , etc , may be more apt in the UK ) for children from four to eight years of age , and a home points system for those of nine and older . |
| 5 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 6 | Of the other three former executives , one was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other two to 18 years . |
| 7 | A court on Oct. 13 , 1989 , sentenced the six members of a Lebanese assassination team to up to eight years in prison for smuggling arms , including Sam-7 missiles , into the island . |
| 8 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 9 | Adrian Hopkins , the master of the IRA gun-running ship , the Eksund , was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on July 29 . |
| 10 | Hamid , 53 , and his publisher , Mohammed Madbouli , were both sentenced to eight years in prison . |
| 11 | Mrs Margarete Hoeke , sentenced in August , 1987 to eight years in jail for spying for the KGB , and Mrs Elke Falk , a ministerial secretary sentenced to 6 ½ years last May , both said they were forced into spying after love affairs . |
| 12 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 13 | But Michael Quigg was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder Angus McMaster in Paisley on May 16 last year , and carrying a knife . |
| 14 | He was sentenced to eight years in youth custody . |
| 15 | He has now agreed to extend his changeover period to eight years in line with the Government-backed ban . |
| 16 | Originally scheduled to run for 15 years , the subsidy period was reduced to eight years after objections from the European Commission , which was particularly concerned over long-term support for the nuclear industry . |
| 17 | The follow up study was restricted to participants from the first study who were 25 to 74 years of age at baseline . |
| 18 | Term of loans from the IDA are more favourable than those demanded by the IBRD and can be up to fifty years with repayments deferred for the first ten years , with no interest charges . |
| 19 | With the assistance of Archbishop Romero — who was subsequently assassinated — she found her son , who was tried and sentenced to 30 years in prison . |
| 20 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 21 | If found guilty , Mr McNamara , who has been charged with mail fraud , wire fraud , and money laundering , could face up to 30 years in jail , the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m . |
| 22 | Typically , there is a noticeable ‘ downturn ’ in physical well-being and health status around 20 to 30 years from onset , regardless of chronological age . |
| 23 | The characteristic downturn in physical well-being and health status around 20 to 30 years from onset of impairment is often accompanied by a parallel downturn in satisfaction with the quality of life . |
| 24 | Babywear : ( items for babies up to 2 years of age ) . |
| 25 | The percentage of children with an abdominal faecal mass present at initial evaluation increased significantly from 19% in children ≤1 year of age , to 28% in children >1 to 2 years of age , to 51% in those >2 to 3 years of age , and to 60% in those >3 to 4 years of age ( p<0.001 ; Pearson 's χ 2 test ) , suggesting that the severity of constipation increased with the duration of constipation ( see Table I ) . |
| 26 | Follow up by questionnaire was accomplished in 52% of eligible patients ; in 28% of those ≤1 year of age , 55% of those >1 to 2 years of age , 53% of those >2 to 3 years of age , and 67% of those >3 to 4 years of age . |
| 27 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 28 | Comics have had the greatest punchbags and been the antidote to 12 years of Republican rule . |
| 29 | This report presents the long term findings up to 12 years after inclusion in the study . |
| 30 | Our study showed that 37% of them were still constipated , receiving laxatives , or soiling 3 to 12 years after start of treatment , or all three . |