Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year ' [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 3 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 4 | The proviso whereby it was possible for some individuals to enjoy an enhanced accrual scale to qualify for full pension benefits after 10 years of service was altered in the 1987 Budget — with a new period of 20 years ' service being required . |
| 5 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
| 6 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
| 7 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
| 8 | A Russian scholar , Kondratieff published in 1926 evidence for the view that familiar economic cycles of 3.5 to 11 years ' length were superimposed on deeper ‘ long waves ’ of 47 to 60 years . |
| 9 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 10 | It shares many of the features of the offence under section 4 , although the penalty at two years ' imprisonment is greater . |