Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other similar businesses can often be valued at around two years ' purchase of the average of the last three years net profits without deduction for proprietor 's remuneration or interest on capital . |
| 2 | Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract . |
| 3 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 4 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 5 | Our advice is based on nearly 200 years ' experience in the Oxfordshire property market . |
| 6 | Daniel 's work in 1974 showed that though 50 per cent of managers and professionals were given at least three months ' notice by their employers , the corresponding proportion for the unskilled was a mere 9 per cent . |