Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 2 | Six to eight weeks ' notice is advisable . |
| 3 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 4 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 6 | Abdul Fatah , a former leader of the NII movement to make Indonesia an Islamic country , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on June 1 convicted of " activities undermining the state ideology , Pancasila , and the 1945 Constitution " . |
| 7 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 8 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 9 | Mr. Butler was sentenced to eight months ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | Fripp , 25 , of King George Road , Ware , who admitted burglary and two charges of handling , was sentenced to 180 hours ' community service . |
| 11 | After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail . |
| 12 | These have occasionally given rise to strange sea-farers ' tales of ‘ floating islands ’ . |
| 13 | George Bush appointed Justice Souter , to political conservatives ' dismay , in the summer of 1990 , in that short period when it looked as if he might be a great president . |
| 14 | And there they 'd be chatting across to one another or come to each others ' doors and h you know pass time of day having a little chat about one thing and another . |
| 15 | Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) . |
| 16 | The two others , Daniel Santovenia Fernández and Pedro de la Caridad Alvárez Pedroso , had their sentences commuted to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 18 | On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Ali Haxhiu , a 45-year-old Albanian refugee in the village of Sazli , was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment in May 1991 after making a ‘ V ’ for victory sign in the presence of two policemen in a café . |
| 20 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 21 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 22 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 23 | Moses Ali was sentenced to 30 months ' imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons on Jan. 7 . |
| 24 | There seemed little awareness of how the mainstream activities of the housing department are of relevance to social services ' role in enabling independent living . |
| 25 | We have all experienced situations in which clients under stress through poverty , mental illness , limited ability or personality disorders have reacted to their difficulties or to social workers ' responses to their problems with displaced anger and aggression . |
| 26 | They apply to different communities , they have responded to different communities ' needs but they also contribute to a ripple effect of achievement at national and international levels which will ultimately benefit the lives of many more children . |
| 27 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 28 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 29 | The officer in command of a military unit which in July 1986 burned to death a photographer , Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , and severely burned his colleague , Carmen Quintana Arancibia [ see p. 34985 ] was in August 1989 condemned to 300 days ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 30 | ( 11 ) To transfer proceedings to another magistrates ' court or to a county court . |