Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 THE PEOPLE of Montenegro yesterday welcomed home the remains of Nicholas I , their first and last king , after 70 years ' exile in Italy , in belated fulfilment of his last will and testament .
2 Pathe , epitomised by its crowing cockerel and mildly patronising commentaries , stopped producing newsreels in 1970 after 75 years ' coverage of world events because of the decline of the film industry and a change in cinema audience tastes .
3 receives a farewell gift from logistics director Mike Cozens on his retirement after 35 years ' service at Barlaston .
4 Geest launched its new product , which is peeled , cored , trimmed and packed in a special container , on the Scottish market yesterday after three years ' work on the process .
5 Elizabeth Taylor ( Mrs Longmate ) in June gained a London External B. D. ( upper second ) after three years ' residence in Oxford .
6 LEN Radford bids a fond farewell to production director Roy Naylor after 31 years ' service as a placer in the biscuit kilns department at Barlaston .
7 John Cunningham , Chief Engineer , bids farewell to Margaret Love who retired in October , after sixteen years ' service as office cleaner .
8 In the second , we are talking about the likelihood of a woman finding adequate childcare facilities for her children and entering the labour market , at a fairly high income level , possibly after many years ' absence from paid employment .
9 Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish .
10 After nine years ' captivity at Theodore 's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland .
11 After seventeen years ' service with Stoddard Ellen Gardner retired from her position as an Export Administrator on the 27th July .
12 Following a speech by Lord Sterling , the reply on behalf of the guests was made by Alan Langley , who retired as Managing Director of P&O Cruises in 1990 after 42 years ' service with P&O , BI and Mackinnon Mackenzie .
13 Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) .
14 It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt .
15 OLIVE Booth says goodbye to friends and colleagues on her retirement as a lithographer after 15 years ' service in the decorating department at Tuscan .
16 After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years .
17 Roy Naylor says goodbye to the Company after 40 years ' service in the industry .
18 After twenty years ' teaching at Goldsmiths ' College in South London , mostly as head of fine art , Jon Thompson has been headhunted by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht .
19 After twenty years ' exposure to religious scrutiny , if deemed worthy and untarnished , this votive tablet would be transferred to the Reclusiam itself .
20 The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole .
21 At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica :
22 You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice .
23 The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight .
24 Amid the tumult of Tiananmen Square , the end of 30 years ' estrangement between the world 's great Communist powers went almost forgotten .
25 Earned PhD in agricultural science , preferably in plant breeding or agronomy ; minimum of 10 years ' experience in agricultural research and training ; three years ' experience working in a multidisciplinary team in a developing country , international organisation , or bilateral program ; management experience ; ability to work collaboratively with scientists of different disciplines and nationalities .
26 The Lithuanian citizenship law , passed by the parliament on Dec. 5 , had established the criteria of 10 years ' residence in Lithuania , knowledge of the language and the Constitution , and a source of income , and had prohibited dual citizenship .
27 From Bill Evans ' early days at the end of the first world war , across the years to Bill Evans junior of the 1990's , the family has so far recorded a combined total of 143 years ' service with Wedgwood .
28 It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place .
29 Although the sentencer had exceeded his powers by passing a sentence of three years ' detention in a young offender institution , the error was automatically corrected by this provision and a lawful sentence resulted .
30 In 1854 – 5 the state had spent the equivalent of three years ' income on the war and had accelerated inflation by covering the deficit with paper money .
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