Below you will find example sentences with "drug offences". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Drug Offences in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: offences
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.3 words

Words in this phrase

drug offences

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • drug can mean: A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. Frequent word
  • offences can mean: plural of offence Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

arrested on drug offences and more 1× arrests for drug offences on and 1× associated with drug offences and suggested 1× charged with drug offences 1× charged with drug offences in newbury 1× charged with drug offences in somerset 1× contested five drug offences including two 1× convictions for drug offences but didn 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a man has 1× a spokesman for 1× a woman from 1× chatham kent police 1× data from 2020 1× following a police 1×

Common sentence endings:

after the event 1× an offensive weapon 1× and drug offences 1× cannabis plants seized 1× child sexual offences 1× housed rose west 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

police 5× people 5× charged 4× years 4× court 4× following 3× sentence 3× cannabis 3× two 3× criminal 2× burglary 2× arrests 2×

Related phrases

sexual offences drug administration drug use drug abuse drug trafficking national drug controlled drug drug law drug possession drug discovery

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around offences:

sexual offences 20× traffic offences 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

drug law drug enforcement drug discovery drug dealing drug administration drug abuse

Just after it in the phrase index:

drug possession drug trafficking drug use dry air dry season dual carriageway

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

drug administration drug use drug abuse drug trafficking drug law drug possession

Same ending:

sexual offences traffic offences

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "drug offences" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 24.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as arrested on drug offences and more, arrests for drug offences on and, police, people and charged stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with sexual offences, drug administration, drug use, sexual offences and traffic offences, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with drug offences

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

All had been found guilty of drug offences. (8 words)

A man has appeared in court charged with drug offences. (10 words)

A woman from Bridgwater has been charged with drug offences in Somerset. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

Data from 2020 showed gang members in the area only accounted for 1.31% of drug crime in the area and their crimes were mainly limited to cannabis offending — but it was likely other types of drug offences went unreported, the report said. (43 words)

Ryba, 24 years, has breached his license conditions following his release after serving a sentence for drug offences., He is also wanted for failing to appear in court for a suspected assault and being in possession of an offensive weapon. (40 words)

Officers from police teams in Birmingham carried out warrants at properties during the week, with a drug den and a large cannabis factory uncovered, people arrested on drug offences and more than 1,000 cannabis plants seized. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Mr Edwards told the judge how Roberts has a poor criminal record that includes offences of criminal damage, drug offences, burglary, violence and kidnap to name a few.

On Saturday, following heavy rain and thunderstorms, police said 11 arrests had been made of people aged between 15 and 46 accused of offences including assault, disorder and drug offences.

The defendant mentioned he had previous convictions for drug offences but didn’t say anything of his child sexual offences.

The offences placed Thaw in breach of a suspended sentence he received for drug offences in October 2020.

He has criticised efforts to confiscate assets of people associated with drug offences, and suggested there should be a statute of limitations for sex offences that stops people being charged 30 years after the event.

Data from 2020 showed gang members in the area only accounted for 1.31% of drug crime in the area and their crimes were mainly limited to cannabis offending — but it was likely other types of drug offences went unreported, the report said.

Officers from police teams in Birmingham carried out warrants at properties during the week, with a drug den and a large cannabis factory uncovered, people arrested on drug offences and more than 1,000 cannabis plants seized.

All had been found guilty of drug offences.

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At the time of his latest drug offences, he was on a community order, imposed in January this year, for burglary.

Kyle Nolan, St Fiacc’s Terrace, Graiguecullen had contested five drug offences, including two for sale or supply and three for possession.

Ryba, 24 years, has breached his license conditions following his release after serving a sentence for drug offences., He is also wanted for failing to appear in court for a suspected assault and being in possession of an offensive weapon.

Thomas Warwick, 32, of Prospect Close, Southend-on-Sea – 11 years in prison, including a current sentence for drug offences in Essex.

TWO men were arrested in Birkenhead on suspicion of drug offences this week.

A man has appeared in court charged with drug offences.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said that since Wednesday until 10am on Friday, the festival had seen a total of six arrests for drug offences on and off site at Glastonbury.

A woman from Bridgwater has been charged with drug offences in Somerset.

Chatham-Kent police spotted a fellow they knew was wanted on an outstanding warrant for failing to attend court in relation to drug offences.

Following a police investigation, two people in their early twenties have been charged with drug offences in Newbury.

Francesca was jailed for drug offences and was sent to HMP Bronzefield - a facility that opened 20 years ago and once housed Rose West.

He pleaded guilty to four drug offences when appearing from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month and was back in the dock for sentencing last Tuesday.

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