Example sentences of "[noun] [num] to [adj] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah Liverpool you see , bloody kids twelve to fourteen years of age |
| 2 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had both been sentenced in February 1991 to 13 years in prison for their role in the June 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations [ see pp. 38008 ; 38097 ] . |
| 3 | Hiss denied the charges and unsuccessfully sued Chambers for libel ; then he in his turn was tried for perjury and sentenced in January 1950 to five years in prison . |
| 4 | Yahweh Ben Yahweh , the founder of the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh — a large black religious sect and multi-faceted business empire — was sentenced on Sept. 4 to 18 years in prison for ordering the murder of 14 " white devils " and wayward disciples ; Yahweh and six followers had been convicted in May of federal conspiracy charges . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A former agent for British military intelligence and member of the UDA , Brian Nelson , was sentenced on Feb. 4 to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 20 charges , including five of conspiracy to murder . |
| 7 | Michel Garretta , director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre , and his chief assistant , Jean-Pierre Allain , were each sentenced on Oct. 23 to four years in prison for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 8 | It was announced on April 29 that Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili , the leader of the extreme nationalist Pamyat organization who had been sentenced in October 1990 to two years in a labour camp for anti-Semitism [ see p. 37789 ] , had hanged himself in prison . |
| 9 | Four members of ETA 's " Madrid commando " , José Ignacio de Juana , Antonio Troitiño Arranz , Inmaculada Noble and Iñés del Río Prada , were sentenced on Nov. 29 to 348 years in total for their part in the murder of three Army officers , including Ricardo Sáenz de Inestrillas , in June 1986 [ see p. 34825 ] ; one other , Estebán Estebán Nieto , was acquitted . |
| 10 | John Mulheren , one of Wall Street 's most successful arbitrageurs in the 1980s , was sentenced on Nov. 14 to one year in prison and a fine of $1,680,000 . |
| 11 | Valeria Novodvorskaya , a leader of the opposition Democratic Union , was sentenced by a Moscow court on March 1 to two years in a labour camp for " insulting the state flag " , after burning a USSR flag during a demonstration in Moscow 's Pushkin Square in September 1990 . |
| 12 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 13 | LOW CHILD PRICES apply to children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel , when sharing a room with 2 adults ( See page 5 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ All men eighteen to forty-one years of age to be called up , Anne , ’ she said . |
| 15 | A study of persons who suffered accidents resulting in paraplegia and tetraplegia showed that 75 per cent of the professional group found similar employment two to three years after the onset of disability and the remaining 25 per cent were unemployed . |
| 16 | Oleg Kozlov , who in June 1990 had hijacked a Soviet internal flight with 54 passengers on board to Helsinki , was sentenced by a court in Latvia on March 14 to five years in a labour camp . |
| 17 | Gerard Harte , 27 , was convicted and sentenced by a Dutch court on April 2 to 18 years in prison for the Roermond murders of May 1990 , when the IRA had admitted responsibility for shooting two Australian tourists mistaken for UK service personnel [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 18 | The man who came to personify the recklessness and corruption at the centre of the S&L scandal , Charles Keating Jr , 68 , was sentenced on April 10 to 10 years in prison and was fined $250,000 . |
| 19 | Ershad had been sentenced in June 1991 to 10 years in prison for illegal arms possession [ see pp. 38288-89 ] , and faced further charges of corruption and abuse of power . |