Example sentences of "[adj] years [unc] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 2 | Although by rights she was not eligible , Mozart not having fulfilled his qualifying period of 10 years ' court service , the emperor was inclined to be generous . |
| 3 | For example , the manager may find it hard to understand how Harry ( say ) , who proudly wears the company 's 35 years ' service badge , can walk out with his work group in an industrial dispute . |
| 4 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | New mothers in Czechoslovakia can look forward to three years ' maternity leave and the health service has a lot more going for it than ours , she says . |
| 7 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
| 8 | George Giangrande and his partners , Sarah Wood and landscape architect Richard Lemmon , have many years ' garden design and construction experience . |
| 9 | At the front was the Sergeant-Major , who was an easy-going Italian with spectacles and fourteen years ' Legion service . |
| 10 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 11 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 12 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 13 | Earned PhD in agronomy , soil science , or soil microbiology ; at least five years ' research experience in legume N 2 fixation , N cycling and 15N technique ; practical experience in developing countries and/or dryland farming systems desirable . |
| 14 | Earned PhD in plant pathology , with at least five years ' research experience in host-plant resistance and alternative control measures . |
| 15 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 16 | In this work of at least twenty years ' duration Cregeen was encouraged and assisted by the Revd John Edward Harrison ( 1784–1858 ) , vicar of Jurby , whose hand has been detected in the preface and the opening paragraphs of the grammar . |
| 17 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 18 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 19 | He was young , well educated , had several years ' work experience under his belt . |
| 20 | Several years ' night school and a year day-release on servo maths at North London Poly underpinned my Model Shop beginnings . |
| 21 | Since 1953 the United States has been subjected to rapidly reduced lead time on computer innovation , from several years ' lead time in the 1950s and 1960s to zero and lag time in the 1980s . |
| 22 | Chambliss 's evidence is based on several years ' participant observation in Seattle . |
| 23 | Suggested entrance requirements are a degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline or HNC/HND with several years ' laboratory experience . |
| 24 | Following the hearing , Mr Scott Vendrely , 29 , a military policeman who has served in Britain since 1987 , faces the prospect of paying the outstanding £538 bill for two years ' poll tax for his British wife Stephanie . |
| 25 | She had returned to Somerville to complete her degree course after two years ' school teaching ( ‘ Taught all the sciences Botany , Zoo , Chemistry . |
| 26 | Applicants are usually graduates and most hold a professional social work qualification with two years ' work experience since qualifying . |
| 27 | This is a major manufacturing facility for cassette tapes and videos , and the last two years ' Christmas number ones were produced on the site . |
| 28 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 29 | Not all the Le Monde journalists support the change , which is the result of two years ' market research and several dummy editions . |
| 30 | This is an indictable offence which carries a two years ' prison sentence . |