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 . |