Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 2 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 3 | Both have contracts with the Company terminable at 3 years ' notice . |
| 4 | Experts say the pollution in North Bohemia is due to 40 years ' emphasis on heavy industry under communist rule . |
| 5 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
| 6 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 7 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |
| 8 | Then the god spoke to a woman whose baby was ill , and afterwards to a couple who were childless after three years ' marriage . |
| 9 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
| 10 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 11 | 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 . |