Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] years ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | HANDSHAKES of congratulations for Harold Clewlow , who celebrated 25 years ' service as a biscuit placer at Coalport Minerva with a long service award from production director Mike Harley . |
| 7 | He served three years ' apprenticeship at Blackadder , Berwickshire , before entering the Edinburgh Botanic Garden , where he was soon placed in charge of the glasshouses . |
| 8 | The exhibition was called ‘ Take Five Plus ’ an original name developed three years ' ago when five designers clubbed together for their first exhibition . |
| 9 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 10 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 11 | In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you . |
| 12 | They agreed to limit the whole to 23 acres , 13 of which were on his Lordship 's land , and offered 40 years ' purchase of the actual rent — an offer which ‘ we flatter ourselves will preclude the unpleasant necessity of having recourse to the decision of a jury ’ . |
| 13 | I spent every last penny of my hoarded misery that night , blew eighteen years ' worth on one split second , and it felt better than anyone who is not a fan can ever be expected to understand . |
| 14 | When the Nazis took power he went underground and worked in the communist resistance , was arrested and did eight years ' penal servitude . |
| 15 | After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager . |
| 16 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 17 | The first time I got charged with chequebooks and cards I got two years ' probation . |
| 18 | Elsa and Jim met four years ' ago . |
| 19 | He had eleven years ' good service before the start of war . |
| 20 | A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools . |
| 21 | ‘ This is this sort of material we are seeking to make the publication more readable , ’ added Mr Stewart , an air frame fitter at Alanbrooke Barracks , Topcliffe , who had six years ' service in the Royal Navy and is a TA member with 124 Recovery Co. at Newton Aycliffe . |
| 22 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 23 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 24 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 25 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 26 | After all , I had nine years ' experience in special education . |
| 27 | Busby had five years ' experience in the lower divisions with York and helped lift the club out of the doldrums . |
| 28 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 29 | He was young , well educated , had several years ' work experience under his belt . |
| 30 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |