Example sentences of "18 month ['s] " in BNC.

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1 He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years .
2 Provisions for parental leave range from 18 months ' low flat rate pay in Germany , or six months ' leave at 30 per cent of earnings in Italy , to three months ' unpaid leave in Greece .
3 The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study .
4 The first College certificate was granted on 22 April 1794 to Edmund Bond , after 18 months ' instruction while a resident pupil .
5 President Mitterrand 's government ( which has still to finalise its IT plans after more than 18 months ' deliberation ) will , so it says , build on French strengths and remedy the weaknesses .
6 Chevenement enjoyed 18 months ' political success , during which time he did well enough to be tipped as the next prime minister .
7 18 months ' work down the drain , ’ he said .
8 The fruits of 18 months ' debate and consultation are the Work Experience and Training Guidelines that were published in September .
9 She was given 18 months ' probation .
10 Last October he was sentenced to 18 months ' jail — 12 months suspended — for reckless driving and driving while banned .
11 The main intention is to have the former LMS locomotive restored back to full working order , hopefully in 18 months ' time .
12 IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes .
13 She had no relapse during 18 months ' follow up , and results of lung function tests were normal .
14 She was charged with and convicted of running a disorderly house , sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and subjected to a property confiscation order in respect of the apparatus .
15 Sentence : 18 months ' imprisonment suspended for two years , and ordered to pay £440 towards the costs of the prosecution .
16 It seemed to the Court that a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment , suspended , was outside the area of sentences which the judge could reasonably have considered appropriate .
17 Sentence : 18 months ' imprisonment and , recommended for deportation .
18 and a jury , of causing grievous bodily harm , contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 , and was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment , suspended for two years , and was ordered to pay £1,500 compensation .
19 On 3 April he was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £1,500 compensation .
20 The court itself took the point that the committal was invalid and quashed a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment .
21 The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months ' civilian service .
22 Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) .
23 A peace activist and owner of the Voice of Peace offshore radio station , Abie Nathan , was sentenced on Oct. 3 , 1989 , to 18 months ' imprisonment , with one year suspended , for meeting PLO leaders ( including Arafat ) — a violation of a 1986 law which prohibited contacts between Israeli MPs and representatives of terrorist groups .
24 Harry Tisch , the former chair of the East German Free German Trade Union Federation ( FDGB ) , was sentenced on June 6 by a Berlin court to 18 months ' imprisonment on charges of misappropriation of union funds for personal benefit .
25 On July 9 the Berlin Landgericht ( state court ) sentenced Gerald Götting , leader from 1966 to 1989 of the East German CDU [ see p. 37024 ] , to 18 months ' imprisonment for diverting over DM100,000 of party funds to build a holiday home .
26 George Marshal Naykene , editor of the Christian Chronicle , was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of criminal libel .
27 Gerd Honsik , the neo-Nazi publisher of an extreme right-wing magazine Halt , was sentenced by a Vienna court to 18 months ' imprisonment on May 5 for 14 neo-Nazi offences including the denial that the mass murder of Jewish people had taken place under the Third Reich .
28 In his opening speech to Congress , Yeltsin put forward a six-point plan , aimed at strengthening presidential powers temporarily , at the expense of those of the legislature , until the promulgation of a new Constitution for the Russian Federation in about 18 months ' time .
29 If the Treasury economic simulation model predicts 15% inflation in 18 months ' time then people 's behaviour may well be influenced by the expectation that the model is correct in its predictions , no matter how good or objective the data on which the simulation was based .
30 However , a RAF careers information officer explained a recruit can leave the service by giving 18 month 's notice through a ‘ notice engagement ’ .
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