Example sentences of "seven years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while were doing that , we should thank Mary for her seven years stint that she 's done on . |
| 2 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Mr Justice Jowitt . |
| 3 | Creating a false market in shares carries a penalty of seven years imprisonment under Section 47 of the Financial Services Act . |
| 4 | However , when a huge ecstacy laboratory was raided in 1977 the drug was banned and listed as ‘ Class A ’ — which means that the maximum penalty for possession is seven years imprisonment and an unlimited fine . |
| 5 | He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults . |
| 6 | He knew the wording by heart : Attempt to export equipment with intent to evade prohibition then in farce by the Provision of the Export Control and Goods Order and C & E Management Act ( Section 68/2 ) , 1979 … and he knew that the offence carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment … |
| 7 | On indictment however , the maximum penalty is seven years imprisonment and an unlimited fine . |
| 8 | A person committing an offence under s.47 is , on indictment , liable to up to seven years imprisonment , or an unlimited fine , or both . |
| 9 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 10 | Sentence : seven years imprisonment with three years imprisonment concurrent for the firearms offence . |
| 11 | Sentencing Davis to seven years imprisonment , Judge Francis Allen told him . |
| 12 | After seven years service plant operator has also retired from Louth . |
| 13 | During these seven years profit amounting to £3,691 was realised allowing many of the old debts to be cleared . |
| 14 | Now after seven years separation I have come to see my family . |
| 15 | Within seven years persecution broke out . |
| 16 | If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time . |
| 17 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 18 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 19 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 20 | Every invasion attempt so far had foundered on France 's naval weakness , but after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 de Choiseul had put in hand a whole series of reforms . |
| 21 | After the end of the Seven Years War , in 1763 , the Royal Navy suffered its customary peacetime fate of neglect and decay . |
| 22 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 23 | Had Louis been less concerned with sex , Plekhanov suggests , France might well have fared differently during the Seven Years War . |
| 24 | Russian support for Austria in the Seven Years War ( 1756–63 ) brought Prussia to the brink of ruin : Frederick the Great was saved only by the death of Elizabeth ( 1741–61 ) . |
| 25 | Peter III was personally responsible for the abrupt cessation of hostilities against a prostrate Prussia in the midst of the Seven Years War . |
| 26 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 27 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 28 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 29 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 30 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |