Example sentences of "[adj] year ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis , the offer represents 14 times this years ' earnings . |
| 2 | Look out for this years ' Lillywhites evening in November , and see if you can be a lucky winner . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the gerontological research community the 1980 and 1985 GHS are of special interest as these years ' surveys had a special section concerned with those aged 65 + . |
| 6 | One reason is that previous years ' figures were bloated by communist managers with an interest in padding their production numbers to get bonuses or promotion . |
| 7 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 8 | Previous years ' results have been restated accordingly . |
| 9 | Which she did — three years ' articles at Gerald Edelman & Co in London . |
| 10 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 11 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 12 | He had stopped off to collect some winnings at a nearby betting shop before going to pay his gas bill and deposit three years ' savings at a bank . |
| 13 | To incorporate the various categories of course , it is proposed that the phased transition should consist of three years ' batches of courses . |
| 14 | [ George R. Sims , My Life : Sixty Years ' Recollections of Bohemian London , 1917 ; Prepare to Shed them Now : the Ballads of George R. Sims , selected and introduced by Arthur Calder-Marshall , 1968 . ] |
| 15 | The effect of this change on prior years is a credit of £9.1m , which has been treated as an exceptional item in the 1991/92 p&l account ; accordingly , prior years ' figures have not been restated . |
| 16 | The Equal Opportunities Commission brought an application for judicial review in December 1990 , claiming that it was against European law to require men to pay NI for longer and to make five more years ' contributions than women in order to receive full pensions entitlement . |
| 17 | He lost the ten years ' increments . |
| 18 | However , it must be pointed out that there will be an early encashment charge if you do so before you have paid six full years ' contributions . |
| 19 | If you have paid six full years ' contributions before you cease payments , the Society will make your policy paid-up , leaving the units purchased to remain invested until such time you make a request to encash them . |
| 20 | Then you are paid 1/80th of the average of all those years ' earnings , for every year you 've been in the scheme . |
| 21 | Up until the 1987 Budget , individuals could base their final salary for pension purposes on any one of their last five years ' earnings . |
| 22 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 23 | The additional earnings-related components of the state pension is based on the best twenty years ' earnings , so those who are out of the labour market for substantial periods ( mainly women ) have little choice of which periods of earnings to take . |
| 24 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 25 | Our new National Pensions Plan , building on the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme , will offer people now in work a pension based on their 20 best years ' earnings . |
| 26 | Further , instead of taking the average of the twenty best years ' earnings after 1978 , SERPS will now take an average earnings of all years worked . |
| 27 | However , when these two years ' figures are compared with those of previous years , it becomes obvious that the crackdown was introduced as a result of a particularly bad year for accidents . |
| 28 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 29 | Almost two years ' preparations culminated with a magnificent floral display , a beating the retreat ceremony and thanksgiving services , along with an opera , performed in the grounds of the old abbey . |
| 30 | And if you really wanted to blow two years ' wages for a working man , then you could spend $185 on a Style 4 Tri-Plate with full ‘ Chrysanthemum ’ engraving on front , sides and back . |