Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] [num] year ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1984 ) report that for those aged 65 + in 1974 reported activity limitation varied from 61.2 per cent of those with five years ' or less education to 34.2 per cent of those with a college education . |
| 2 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 3 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 4 | A Russian scholar , Kondratieff published in 1926 evidence for the view that familiar economic cycles of 3.5 to 11 years ' length were superimposed on deeper ‘ long waves ’ of 47 to 60 years . |
| 5 | Confirmed early in the year , the order came as a result of two to three years ' work . |