Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 2 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 3 | Submission to central authority was deeply ingrained in its 150 years ' history , and the hospital was only now to throw off the last traces of its even more ancient deterrent purpose . |
| 4 | For a company which in its 90 years ' existence has made its share of bad decisions , this may rank as the worst of them all . |
| 5 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |