Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years ['s] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary .
2 With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority .
3 Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City .
4 Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) .
5 He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge .
6 She visited her rural community after two years ' absence and was impressed by the degree of collective organization and determination shown by her community .
7 In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty .
8 Yet judging from the book , the case material lacks an essential element of realism , in spite of 30 years ' development and three editions .
9 A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released .
10 Due to be sentenced on Feb. 7 , 1992 , Keating faced a maximum penalty of 10 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 .
11 First degree courses are usually of three years ' duration but are , in many instances , extended to include periods of professional training ( in industry , commerce or the public service ) or time spent abroad .
12 The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject .
13 Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination .
14 Under the window was deep porcelain sink stained with the detritus of seventy years ' washing-up and impossible to clean adequately .
15 The charges , which carried a maximum sentence of 50 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000 , alleged that Imelda Marcos had secretly invested in Manhattan real estate and valuables using money stolen from the Philippines .
16 The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen .
17 Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 .
18 With the benefit of five years ' hindsight and analysis , it is possible to understand at least some of the political consequences of that sort of robust egalitarianism .
19 Finally , women could never receive the maximum compensation because of differential retirement ages , payments based on age , and the ceiling of twenty years ' maximum that counted towards payments .
20 The present book is the fruit of twenty years ' research and is an exhaustive catalogue of the families of silver makers who produced commemorative spoons for generations of prosperous West Country yeomen and their families , above all for births and christenings .
21 It is punishable by a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment or a fine or both .
22 The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject .
23 Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl .
24 The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both .
25 Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence .
26 Club president Jim Carnegie said the new floodlit pitch , which replaces a heavily-worn dry play area , represented the culmination of two years ' planning and fund-raising .
27 C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses .
28 In 1988 , PHILIPPE LE ROUX unveiled the F1 , the product of two years ' design and development .
29 That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment .
30 This one-term course is intended for practising UK and overseas teachers with two years ' experience and good English .
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