Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevant passage in the judgment indicated that where a rape was committed by a person who was in a position of trust towards the victim , the starting point for consideration of the appropriate sentence should be eight years . |
| 2 | The Bill says that the term of a trusteeship should be five years , yet , as the Minister knows , the director of the Tate gallery , and the trustees of the Tate and of the national galleries have made strong representations that , for good sound reasons , that term should be seven years . |
| 3 | The Bill says that the term of a trusteeship should be five years , yet , as the Minister knows , the director of the Tate gallery , and the trustees of the Tate and of the national galleries have made strong representations that , for good sound reasons , that term should be seven years . |
| 4 | An important general rule was in an Act passed in 1967 , which allowed arrest without a warrant for murder or for any other crime for which the jail sentence could be five years or more , but this was merely in addition to the motley of other provisions . |
| 5 | Dogs must be seven years old or over and we 'll be looking for good health and condition as well as stunning good looks . |
| 6 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 7 | RULES OF ENTRY : Applicants should be 18 years old or over and may submit only one entry . |
| 8 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 9 | Kenneth Baker , formerly Secretary of State for Education , claimed that the normal repayment period would be five years . |
| 10 | This year , EEC officials calculate , the payback period would be 20 years . |
| 11 | RULES OF ENTRY : Entrants must be 18 years or over and may submit only one entry . |
| 12 | Entrants must be 18 years or over . |
| 13 | Its proposal that the maximum penalty for indecent assault should be ten years irrespective of the sex of the victim was implemented by the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , s.3(3) . |
| 14 | " That sign must be ten years old . |
| 15 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 16 | 1983 ) while 5-year-olds can be one year behind ( Ling 1972 ) . |
| 17 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 18 | The duration of the course would be two years full-time ( 12 modules plus a project ) . |
| 19 | Divide your life into five equal or near-equal segments — for example , if you are thirty-five each segment would be seven years long , ages 0–7 being the first segment . |
| 20 | Girls must be 16 years or over . |
| 21 | The difference was partly generational ; this man must be ten years older than Hutton . |
| 22 | I mean it 's as simple as that , and I Colonel 's comments , saying how hard done by Wiltshire police constabulary could be next year because we have n't set over the odds budget for this year so that the Home Secretary can take it on . |
| 23 | Maximum prison sentences would be 15 years . |
| 24 | George Green will be sixteen years of age next March . |
| 25 | Colleagues on the fourteenth of June Trevor who indeed has addressed this er conference in the past will be eighty years of age . |
| 26 | Such is the fickle nature of teen tastes that the most predictable thing is that this year 's winner will be next year 's loser . |
| 27 | POOLE Branch will be 25 years old later this year . |
| 28 | Simonica will be six years old this June . |
| 29 | RUDOLF Diesel 's patent may be 100 years old , but if one company could be said to have re-invented the concept in recent years for the small hatchback it must be Volkswagen . |
| 30 | THE WHO will be 25 years old next month , and not one of the band looks a day over 50 . |