Example sentences of "[num] year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retiring after ten years with the company was Joe Lofthouse , while the six others each had over forty year 's service demonstrating a tremendous loyalty . |
| 2 | Sentence : six year 's imprisonment . |
| 3 | The six Antiquaires à Paris dealers , returning to the Biennale after six year 's absence , brought some great eighteenth-century French furniture with them . |
| 4 | Microvitec hopes to sell 5,000 units by end of the year and predicts 50% of ASCI/ANSI terminals sold will be Alpha-based in two or three year 's time . |
| 5 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 6 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
| 7 | I 'm a computer consultant with some 17 year 's experience in the industry . |
| 8 | Mima Graham , who has been with the company for 18 years and Graeme Brown , with 4 year 's service . |
| 9 | John Chope , retired this year at the age of 65 — after 52 year 's service with the RNLI . |
| 10 | With over 50 year 's heritage you can trust the family range of great tasting vitamins from Haliborange to give you and your family peace of mind . |
| 11 | At the Jeu de Paume until the 11th is the last ten year 's work of Martin Barre , who is also showing a coherent group of gouaches from 1957 to 1960 at Barbier-Beltz until 17 April . |
| 12 | The Indian Christian Art Association ( ICAA ) is celebrating more than ten year 's work encouraging and bringing together Christian artists from throughout the country . |
| 13 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |
| 16 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 17 | It 's owned and run by Oxfordshire County Council , which is building another much bigger landfill alongside it intended to take twelve year 's worth of south Oxfordshire 's waste . |
| 18 | Audit regulation — one year on There is a mixed response to audit regulation after one year 's experience |
| 19 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 20 | Longer term aims may not require to be re-stated after just one year 's experience — numerous changes of direction will only serve to confuse , but they should be re-examined in the light of progress in attaining short term targets and the development plan should be altered accordingly . |
| 21 | In this study , all endoscopic injections were performed by two endoscopists who had at least five years ' experience of endoscopic examination and one year 's experience of endoscopic injection . |
| 22 | Thus , X and X' represent ‘ one year 's experience of university life ’ . |
| 23 | Each of the Pet Value policies — insuring a cat or dog — including one year 's cover for veterinary fees , both conventional treatment and complementary medicines — physiotherapy , acupuncture , herbal and homoeopathic medicine — up to £1,875 . |
| 24 | The cost would probably be about one year 's salary of such an assistant , but it does not recur . |
| 25 | More than one year 's delay in reporting the symptom to the family doctor has been recorded in over half of cases , the main reasons for this being the hope that it will go away and embarrassment in talking to the doctor about it . |
| 26 | It 's more important than just one , one year 's pay rise . |
| 27 | Gartner 's Open Systems Service costs £10,800 for one year 's subscription . |
| 28 | One year 's subscription costs US$10 in Latin America and US$15 elsewhere . |
| 29 | Tell class members that any one newly joining in the autumn term gets to the end of the year and the following calendar year for one year 's subscription . |
| 30 | Before the polys uncork the champagne , it should be added that it is always dangerous to infer a trend from one year 's figures . |