Example sentences of "[adj] years ['s] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather it is a calm , thoroughly documented and well-illustrated report drawn from Oxfam 's 30 years ' experience of working in Southern Africa . |
| 2 | At this stage SGB Group already had some 12 years ' experience in processing by computer its main business systems . |
| 3 | The Kirghiz Supreme Court in Bishkek ( formerly Frunze ) on March 19 sentenced Ataman Tashaliyev , a former deputy to the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet , to 12 years ' imprisonment for leading the June 1990 pogrom against Uzbek residents of the town of Uzgen . |
| 4 | The community mental handicap team ( a title it retains , although its members do not describe their clients as handicapped ) has more than 10 years ' experience of providing such innovative care to a mainly rural and home based population . |
| 5 | G Lawrence of Great Barr , Birmingham is a police dog handler with 10 years ' experience of owning German Shepherd dogs . |
| 6 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 7 | A leading member of the ETA command , Santiago Arróspide Sarasola " Santi-Potrosó " , was on July 4 , 1990 , sentenced by a French court to 10 years ' imprisonment for belonging to a terrorist organization and for illegal possession of arms . |
| 8 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 9 | In what had become known as " the couscous connection " , the President 's brother , Moncef Ben Ali , was sentenced in absentia by a French court on Nov. 17 to 10 years ' imprisonment for laundering drugs money after being caught at Orly airport in Paris with a suitcase full of banknotes . |
| 10 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
| 11 | Sacheverell 's trial the next spring sparked off widespread rioting in London , and although Sacheverell was eventually found guilty , he received the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching . |
| 12 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 13 | If you had more than 5 years ' service before leaving ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you will be given a ‘ deferred pension ’ , which is inflation proofed . |
| 14 | When you accept these books , you not only save £21.51 ( and the Lotto Game comes free ) ; you automatically become a member of this celebrated Club with over twelve years ' experience of recommending the best children 's books . |
| 15 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
| 16 | ACTOR Ryan O'Neal 's tearaway son was yesterday put on five years ' probation for shooting up his ex-girlfriend 's car . |
| 17 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 18 | Three white Zimbabweans were each sentenced on June 9 , 1989 , to 40 years ' imprisonment for taking part in bomb attacks in Harare in May 1986 by the South African Army on premises used by the then banned South African group the African National Congress ( ANC ) [ see p. 34662 ] . |
| 19 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 20 | She has several years ' experience of teaching in the Sudan . |
| 21 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |
| 22 | A marketing executive for the Boeing Co. , Richard Lee Fowler , was sentenced on Jan. 13 , 1990 , to two years ' imprisonment for passing over 100 classified Defence Department documents , including a five-year budget projection , to Boeing between 1979 and 1985 . |
| 23 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 24 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 25 | We occasionally have vacancies for bartenders who must have at least two years ' experience of working a cocktail bar . |
| 26 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |
| 27 | Stepan was sentenced on July 9 to four years ' imprisonment for abusing the powers of a public official and inciting others to commit the same offence . |
| 28 | Three skinheads were each sentenced in Frankfurt-an-der Oder on Sept. 14 to four years ' imprisonment for beating up three African immigrants , one of whom subsequently died , in Eberswalde in November 1991 . |
| 29 | National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's linked with business , with the fluctuations of the stock exchange , ’ explains Paul Smith , who has 20 years ' experience of designing for men . |