Example sentences of "three years ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 2 | The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 3 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
| 4 | Of the others arrested on 9 October , some were later released , one is awaiting trail and others have been tried and sentenced to up to three years ' imprisonment for , among other things , ‘ illegal association ’ . |
| 5 | A specially established criminal tribunal on Aug. 11 sentenced a former Pasok Deputy Finance Minister , Nikos Athanasopoulos , to three years ' imprisonment for criminal fraud and forgery . |
| 6 | Former Bangladesh President Hussain Mohammad Ershad was sentenced on Feb. 3 to a further three years ' imprisonment for illegally amassing some 19,000,000 taka ( about US$510,450 ) . |
| 7 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 8 | In 1854 – 5 the state had spent the equivalent of three years ' income on the war and had accelerated inflation by covering the deficit with paper money . |
| 9 | Two or even three years ' salary for a kitchen maid , £10 was , in fact , too low an estimate of the potential profit [ see Rizzo ] . |
| 10 | A new PICKUP Scotland EUROPE unit has now been guaranteed three years ' funding from Scottish Enterprise . |
| 11 | The goodwill in this case maybe calculated on two to three years ' purchase of so-called absolute net profit ( ie net profit after allowing for the salary of a fully-qualified manager for each shop ) . |
| 12 | Jed-Forest signed a £30,000 deal for three years ' backing from the TSB , Melrose will receive a minimum of £10,000 this season from Concept Group , sponsorship which , through bonuses , could rise to £15,000 if they win the national championship and the Border League , and Stewart 's Melville have a season 's £15,000 support from Dial Office Systems . |
| 13 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
| 14 | Sentence : three years ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 15 | Although the sentencer had exceeded his powers by passing a sentence of three years ' detention in a young offender institution , the error was automatically corrected by this provision and a lawful sentence resulted . |
| 16 | Geest launched its new product , which is peeled , cored , trimmed and packed in a special container , on the Scottish market yesterday after three years ' work on the process . |
| 17 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
| 18 | Hewson , a former professor of economics at the University of New South Wales , with only three years ' experience in the federal parliament , was generally considered competent but lacking in charisma . |
| 19 | And normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a junior or first line management post directly concerned with the provision of food or beverages or with the provision and servicing of accommodation . |
| 20 | Or normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry . |
| 21 | This means , for example , that , given the current spot yields , the market is expecting the yield on a one-year bond maturing in three years ' time to be 11.92 per cent . |
| 22 | The real boost for cellular radio will come in two to three years ' time with the introduction of the Europe-wide service , GSM . |
| 23 | The nuns were charged with ‘ splittist activity ’ and condemned to three years ' labour for being ‘ extremely arrogant ’ . |
| 24 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 25 | Elizabeth Taylor ( Mrs Longmate ) in June gained a London External B. D. ( upper second ) after three years ' residence in Oxford . |
| 26 | He served three years ' apprenticeship at Blackadder , Berwickshire , before entering the Edinburgh Botanic Garden , where he was soon placed in charge of the glasshouses . |
| 27 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 28 | The Uranium Institute , based in London , has calculated that the 816 tonnes of HEU that might be released from American and Soviet disarmament could take the place of 166,000 tonnes of natural uranium , roughly three years ' worth of world demand . |
| 29 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 30 | Sacheverell 's trial the next spring sparked off widespread rioting in London , and although Sacheverell was eventually found guilty , he received the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching . |