Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | A new contraceptive is being launched which will give women up to five years protection against unwanted pregnancies . |
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 | A person committing an offence under s.47 is , on indictment , liable to up to seven years imprisonment , or an unlimited fine , or both . |
7 | 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 . |