Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] year ' " in BNC.

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1 SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style .
2 Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship .
3 Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller .
4 Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems .
5 Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix .
6 Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites .
7 The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there .
8 So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes .
9 Roy has held many management positions and has 36 years ' experience in carpets .
10 The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon .
11 She has several years ' experience of teaching in the Sudan .
12 Sean Clarke has several years ' experience with Knockdene where he was formerly an after sales service advisor .
13 It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners .
14 Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa .
15 Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February .
16 Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ .
17 Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years ' free unemployment cover .
18 ‘ It 's linked with business , with the fluctuations of the stock exchange , ’ explains Paul Smith , who has 20 years ' experience of designing for men .
19 National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists .
20 In the first sentencing in the Milan affair , Mario Chiesa , the ( Socialist ) administrator of a Milan old people 's home , received six years ' imprisonment on Nov. 29 for embezzling L 6,000 million , some of which went to party funds .
21 She is also to serve three years ' probation and do community service at Hale House in Harlem .
22 Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution .
23 The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages .
24 A 21-year-old Liverpool man serving seven years ' detention for robbing women working in two Southampton shops was refused leave by the Criminal Appeal Court in London to appeal against his conviction and sentence .
25 I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation .
26 When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre .
27 On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true .
28 So , if you buy a yearling fish it will have consumed three years ' pellet rations and , hopefully , survived three merry-go-rounds of hazards .
29 Cowen , of Holloway , north London , was given three years ' probation .
30 She was given three years ' supervision and a five-year driving ban .
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