Example sentences of "[num] year [conj] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan Pursuitte , an American , was jailed for 12 years and ordered to be deported . |
| 2 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 3 | The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £10 million . |
| 4 | The main problem , said Ryzhkov in December , was an acute shortage of rolling stock : freight tariffs had barely changed in 40 years and had to be raised to finance a modernization plan for 1991-2000 . |
| 5 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |