Example sentences of "[adj] year ' [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 2 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 3 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 4 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 5 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 6 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 9 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 10 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 11 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 12 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 13 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 14 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As well as two years ' placement or something . |
| 17 | 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 . |