Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] year ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 2 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 3 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 4 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 5 | Just over a year later , already a trained weaver , he left to join another company for eight years before returning to complete thirty four years ' continuous service . |