Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' service " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
2 | Mr Barritt had been planning to retire from the executive of Bryson House , formerly known as Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society , next week after 30 years ' service . |
3 | 67 years ' service at age 56 A Bedale man has completed a total of 67 years in two branches of public service and he is still only 56 . |
4 | The 15 all present and correct had between them an astonishing 533 years ' service . |
5 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
6 | In his report delivered the next day , he observed that the road surface was not yet completed and that only drivers with at least six years ' service could be employed on Anerley Hill . |
7 | The steep section on Anerley Hill could not be opened until the company had persuaded sufficient drivers with at least six years ' service to transfer from other undertakings . |
8 | ‘ This is this sort of material we are seeking to make the publication more readable , ’ added Mr Stewart , an air frame fitter at Alanbrooke Barracks , Topcliffe , who had six years ' service in the Royal Navy and is a TA member with 124 Recovery Co. at Newton Aycliffe . |
9 | He worked for Coast Lines and retired as a collector in 1967 after 47 years ' service . |
10 | ( From fieldnotes : detective sgt. , 10 years ' service ) |
11 | He attained the rank of acting WO II during his eight years ' service , after which he did a graduate trainee course with Anglo American/De Beers Mining in South Africa . |
12 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | For example , the manager may find it hard to understand how Harry ( say ) , who proudly wears the company 's 35 years ' service badge , can walk out with his work group in an industrial dispute . |
15 | Cubby blows for time after 35 years ' service |
16 | DUNDEE Stobswell staff gave Manager Cubby Lorimer a party send-off when he retired from the Royal Bank after 35 years ' service . |
17 | receives a farewell gift from logistics director Mike Cozens on his retirement after 35 years ' service at Barlaston . |
18 | Piotr Kolodziejczyk , on the grounds that he was eligible to retire after 35 years ' service . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
22 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
23 | I 've seen one sergeant with fourteen years ' service chuck it and go to Australia , saying : ‘ I 've had enough of this bloody job . ’ |
24 | During 1934 the Music master , Mr. William Sidebotham , retired after 46 years ' service . |
25 | Ken Doyle , Vice-President , has completed 17 years ' service on the Executive Committee since first being elected in 1973 as Wexford Area Secretary . |
26 | John Cunningham , Chief Engineer , bids farewell to Margaret Love who retired in October , after sixteen years ' service as office cleaner . |
27 | If you had more than 5 years ' service before leaving ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you will be given a ‘ deferred pension ’ , which is inflation proofed . |
28 | At the Lincoln parliament of 1316 , with Lancaster at the head of the council , a campaign in Scotland was planned and the proposal to levy one man from each vill was revived , with the vill responsible for wages for sixty days ' service . |
29 | Forty-five people were honoured of whom six had each given over 50 years ' service to the church . |
30 | He retired in 1968 after 50 years ' service . |