Example sentences of "three year ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the god spoke to a woman whose baby was ill , and afterwards to a couple who were childless after three years ' marriage . |
| 2 | It applies to any profession regulated in some way by the state ( or by chartered professional associations , as is the case with many in the UK ) for which at least three years ' education and training at university or equivalent level are required . |
| 3 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
| 4 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | Beneath violent disorder comes the crime of affray ( section 3 ) , now defined in terms of threatening or using unlawful violence towards another , and carrying a maximum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | The basic offence in section 1 is that of possessing a firearm without a certificate , an offence which ( despite elements of strict liability ) carries a maximum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On Jan. 19 Garcia and his wife were each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990 , shortly before the two were sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On Feb. 27 , however , Ahipeaud and three other student leaders were each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment and fined 500,000 francs CFA ( about US$1,800 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Failure to observe the ban was punishable by up to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ban on sale or display is backed by tough penalties , including a heavy fine and up to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 21 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
| 24 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 25 | Two or even three years ' salary for a kitchen maid , £10 was , in fact , too low an estimate of the potential profit [ see Rizzo ] . |
| 26 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 27 | She is also to serve three years ' probation and do community service at Hale House in Harlem . |
| 28 | Placing him on three years ' probation , Mr Justice Hodgson said : ‘ This is a tragic case . |
| 29 | Cowen , of Holloway , north London , was given three years ' probation . |
| 30 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |