Example sentences of "[adj] years ' [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent . |
| 2 | A Russian scholar , Kondratieff published in 1926 evidence for the view that familiar economic cycles of 3.5 to 11 years ' length were superimposed on deeper ‘ long waves ’ of 47 to 60 years . |
| 3 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 4 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 5 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
| 6 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 7 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 8 | The Twenty Years ' Crisis was a sustained critique of the way in which utopian thought had dominated international relations in the inter-war years . |
| 9 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |