Example sentences of "four [coord] [num] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 2 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |
| 3 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 4 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 5 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 6 | Frantisek Kincl , Interior Minister at the time of the 1989 revolution , his deputy Alojz Lorenc , and Karel Vykypel , the former chief of the counterintelligence service , were convicted by a military court on Oct. 30 of abusing the authority of a public official and sentenced to three , four and 3½ years ' imprisonment respectively . |