Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for four year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two banks had agreed that BBV should be co-chaired for four years by a member from each side ( the other co-president being José Angel Sánchez Asiaín — Banco de Bilbao ) , but Banco de Bilbao was anxious to appoint a single president . |
| 2 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral Parliament , the 46 members of which are elected for four years on the basis of universal adult franchise . |
| 3 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral Parliament , the 46 members of which are elected for four years on the basis of universal adult franchise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 6 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |
| 7 | The Amir , an absolute monarch , appoints the Cabinet and the 30-member Advisory Council ; the latter 's term was extended for four years in April 1990 . |
| 8 | In 1979 Vaclav Havel was jailed for four years on charges of ‘ attempted subversion of the republic ’ . |
| 9 | A father who broke his nine-week-old son 's bones in six places , was jailed for four years at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday . |
| 10 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 11 | A STORNOWAY man was jailed for four years at the High Court in Inverness after being convicted of hijacking a lorry with a £30,000 load of spirits , tobacco and groceries . |
| 12 | David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit . |
| 13 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |