Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 4 | SPEEDWAY : Joe Screen , who won the British under-21 championship in 1990 , will start favourite for this year 's title as he chases a £10,000 bonus from sponsors Homefire . |
| 5 | " Even if you have a copy of the old ( September 1988 ) Catalogue , have a look at this year 's edition as it contains details of 15 new titles and information on many more books , packs , videos and projects . |
| 6 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 7 | Until recent years the aim of the librarian , more often than not , was to achieve as large an increase on his previous year 's bookfund as his finance committee would tolerate . |
| 8 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 9 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 10 | any sub-lease would be outside the Landlord and Tenant Act and would include a rent review in one year 's time as per their own lease ; |
| 11 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 12 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |
| 13 | Mr Erlund described last year 's result as ‘ reasonable ’ considering the difficult economic conditions : ‘ The lower results are primarily related to the increasingly adverse economic conditions in Sweden and to the continued slump in Great Britain . ’ |
| 14 | The evening will be an opportunity to hear excerpts from next year 's repertory as well as from Don Carlos . |