Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 2 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 3 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 4 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 5 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 6 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 7 | A RAPIST who was captured after he left bare footprints at the scene of the crime was jailed for 14 years at Bristol Crown Court yesterday . |
| 8 | But all the wealth and all the lands of the Talliens could not provide the one element that Nora sought : the fragrance of the oaks — the smell of Normandy in spring ; for spring was gone for another year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 11 | A WINDOW cleaner was jailed for seven years yesterday for raping one of his customers . |
| 12 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 13 | A MEMBER of the Irish Republican Army who was caught with bomb-making equipment in his home was jailed for 20 years at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |
| 14 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 15 | AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available . |
| 16 | The Solland Sword was lost for many years , having disappeared during the destruction of Solland by Gorbad Ironclaw 's Orcs . |
| 17 | My husband was banned for three years after he 'd killed me . ’ |
| 18 | A man who admitted twice raping his 15-year-old daughter and indecently assaulting her teenage friend was jailed for six years . |
| 19 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 20 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 21 | Muise was jailed for six years . |
| 22 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 23 | This lease was renewed for 300 years , until the final disafforestment and enclosure of those forests . |
| 24 | Danaher was jailed for nine years . |
| 25 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 26 | A TWINBROOK man was jailed for two years yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges of arson . |
| 27 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 30 | A man was jailed for three years in Cardiff for burglary . |