Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years ['s] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 2 | After two or more years ' investigation and the resolution of differences about which locations should or should not be included , a plan was submitted to the Governing Senate in St Petersburg in 1746 . |
| 3 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
| 7 | Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced . |
| 8 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 9 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 10 | As well as two years ' placement or something . |