Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [num] years ' " in BNC.

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1 To be meaningful the vision must be a detailed one , a vision of what will actually be happening in his area at 9.00 a.m. on Monday morning in two years ' time to achieve success .
2 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 .
3 At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica :
4 Jim is an Ipswich resident of 15 years ' standing .
5 A computer survey of 80 insurance companies revealed that a 24-year-old male living in St Albans with three years ' no claims bonus would pay £676 to insure a Furio , compared to £1,344 for a Golf and £1,560 for a 105bhp Escort XR3i .
6 Silke Maier-Witt , a former member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in east Germany in 1990 [ see p. 37828 ] , was sentenced by a Stuttgart court to 10 years ' imprisonment on Oct. 8 for her part in the 1977 murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer [ see pp. 28743 ; 28920 ] and in the 1979 attempted assassination of Gen. Alexander Haig [ see p. 29913 ] .
7 The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition .
8 A US court in Miami , Florida , sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega to 40 years ' imprisonment on July 10 on drugs and racketeering charges .
9 Ms Tutweiller will be working towards that time because she plans to be back with a vengeance — when Baker challenges President Bill Clinton for the White House in four years ' time .
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