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Example sentences of "[adj] year ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Amid the tumult of Tiananmen Square , the end of 30 years ' estrangement between the world 's great Communist powers went almost forgotten .
2	Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller .
3	Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry .
4	Rather it is a calm , thoroughly documented and well-illustrated report drawn from Oxfam 's 30 years ' experience of working in Southern Africa .
5	Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship .
6	After more than 30 years ' work at Wharram Percy , it is possible to give a general account of what happened on the site , and , in view of the detailed work there , this may have implications for studies elsewhere .
7	Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 .
8	Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) .
9	This book is dedicated to his 30 years ' research in the area , and he has contributed an interesting first chapter on his reminiscences .
10	I was merely a naval officer , with some years ' experience in intelligence , and two languages .
11	The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight .
12	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 .
13	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 .
14	A few years ' experience in commerce , particularly in marketing will help even more .
15	New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
16	A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of .
17	Further , more local , threats are posed for the sake of a few years ' supply of raw materials .
18	Surgical nurse practitioner Lou Jacobs has been a nurse for 17 years and has over 12 years ' experience in intensive care units .
19	At this stage SGB Group already had some 12 years ' experience in processing by computer its main business systems .
20	The Kirghiz Supreme Court in Bishkek ( formerly Frunze ) on March 19 sentenced Ataman Tashaliyev , a former deputy to the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet , to 12 years ' imprisonment for leading the June 1990 pogrom against Uzbek residents of the town of Uzgen .
21	A Palestinian , Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni , and a Jordanian , Abdel Fatar Ghadanfar , were sentenced on June 3 by a Frankfurt court to 15 and 12 years ' imprisonment for attempted murder and possession of explosives similar to those involved in the Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988 .
22	An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] .
23	As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 .
24	In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 .
25	Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years .
26	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 .
27	‘ 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 .
28	Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners .
29	The final member of the group is John Perry , a Leading Shunter with six years ' experience with the railway .
30	While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus .