Example sentences of "[adj] years [unc] [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 2 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 3 | The vicar added that unless the new church was allowed three years ' hard work would have been wasted . |
| 4 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
| 5 | These estimates assume eight years out of work altogether and twelve years ' part-time work subsequently . |
| 6 | As usual , de Gaulle 's language was loaded : " dispersion " really meant pluralism ; " facilité " meant the French people 's understandable impatience to begin enjoying the rewards of twenty years ' hard work . |
| 7 | — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work . |