Example sentences of "[adj] years ' [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 2 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 3 | The Audencia Nacional ( National High Court ) on Oct. 11 , 1989 , sentenced ETA members José Antonio López Ruiz and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " to 42 years ' imprisonment each , and two others to 36 and 29 years , for attacks and murders dating back to 1984 . |
| 4 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 5 | Sometimes they offer up to two years ' rent free ; in other instances a capital sum changes hands . |
| 6 | In November two former Army officers , Adolfo Padilla and Gustavo Díaz , were sentenced by a civilian court to seven years ' imprisonment each for participation in a failed coup attempt on May 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36653-54 ] . |