Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] [adj] year ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call came from the director general of the Office of Fair Trading , Sir Gordon Borrie , in a hard-hitting review of this 16 years ' work , at a recent Institute of Directors ' branch meeting . |
| 2 | The EEC this month revealed that Europe 's nuclear industry holds a stockpile of some four years ' supply of enriched uranium . |
| 3 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 4 | Then you are paid 1/80th of the average of all those years ' earnings , for every year you 've been in the scheme . |
| 5 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |