Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 32 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 33 | But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation . |
| 34 | He met his collaborator of forty years ' standing Dr Annegrit Schmitt ( now his wife ) when she presented her thesis to the Graphische Sammlung in 1952 . |
| 35 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 36 | The only group of workers to achieve shorter hours by legislation were the miners , who were granted an eight-hour day in 1908 after forty years ' campaigning . |
| 37 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 38 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 39 | 67 years ' service at age 56 A Bedale man has completed a total of 67 years in two branches of public service and he is still only 56 . |
| 40 | A multichannel spectrum analyser , with the capability of scanning 10,000,000 frequencies simultaneously in the microwave portion of the spectrum , would work in tandem with some of the world 's largest radio telescopes in a targeted survey of solar type stars within 75 light years ' distance . |
| 41 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 42 | This would render fruitless two and a half years ' negotiations between LAG and BP Coal leaving LAG to start from scratch with a new company . |
| 43 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |
| 44 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 45 | A few years ' experience in commerce , particularly in marketing will help even more . |
| 46 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 47 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 48 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 49 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 50 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 51 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 52 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 53 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 54 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |
| 55 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 56 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 57 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 58 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 59 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 60 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |