Example sentences of "[conj] [num] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | If you had more than 5 years ' service before leaving ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you will be given a ‘ deferred pension ’ , which is inflation proofed . |
| 62 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 63 | The commissioner who conducts the inquiry is appointed by the Lord Chancellor ( in England ) and he must be a barrister of not less than ten years ' standing . |
| 64 | Bob , who is director of the Indonesian joint venture , brought more than 25 years ' experience to his session on the development of LNG in Indonesia , while Paul , manager of strategic planning , and John , finance manager for the Indonesian Region , gave comprehensive presentations of the key financial issues . |
| 65 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 66 | 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 67 | Changes from year to year in the number of people in each age group create difficulties for planning , especially as birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict ; estimating what the school population will be in more than five years ' time becomes increasingly speculative and uncertain . |
| 68 | More than 40 years ' experience of the planning system has established a powerful plan-making bureaucracy in central and local government . |
| 69 | The archdeacon — again a helpful and hospitable man with a great knowledge gleaned from more than thirty years ' experience of the paranormal — has written two books on his subject , Psychic Studies — A Christian View and Deliverance . |
| 70 | His surgeon has said that two years ' rest may improve the problem significantly . |
| 71 | Expectations of childhood and ways of treating babies changed rapidly in the 1950s , and perhaps the difference in perception between me and my sister is no more than four years ' difference in age , and a reflection of a change in expectation on the part of children themselves , learned from the altered practice of adults around . |
| 72 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 73 | The data bank 's research shows that 45% of Japanese property companies have debts greater than two years ' worth of their sales and 32% have debts greater than three years of sales . |
| 74 | However , even if 10 years ' worth of rights from an old company pension scheme are commuted to no more than two years ' worth in your new one , it could still be worth accepting , particularly if your new job is likely to produce rapid pay rises . |
| 75 | Two infant and three junior classes cater for children from five to eleven although no class contains children with more than two years ' difference in their ages . |
| 76 | One of the most vocal critics of reorganization , an officer of more than 20 years ' standing , deplored what seemed to him to be an essential transformation in pollution control work . |
| 77 | Mr Bain , who now lives with Miss Spinner , alleges that Mr Reid , who has more than 20 years ' service at the hospital , incited a male resident to ‘ sort out ’ a female resident whenever she became distressed and noisy . |
| 78 | 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 . |
| 79 | However , even if 10 years ' worth of rights from an old company pension scheme are commuted to no more than two years ' worth in your new one , it could still be worth accepting , particularly if your new job is likely to produce rapid pay rises . |
| 80 | It was reported on Jan. 3 , 1991 , that two ETA members , José Antonio López Rúiz " Kubati " , and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " , had been sentenced to 47 and 26 years ' imprisonment respectively for the murder in September 1986 of the amnestied ETA member María Dolores González Catarain " Yoyes " [ see p. 34825 ; for earlier conviction of Fermin see p. 37588 ] . |
| 81 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 82 | At the front was the Sergeant-Major , who was an easy-going Italian with spectacles and fourteen years ' Legion service . |
| 83 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 84 | He does not believe himself to be guilty of murder , and yet he now faces between and fifteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 85 | Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year . |
| 86 | However , even without the Mowatt extension , one might ask whether the distinction between intention ( section 18 ) and recklessness ( section 20 ) is so wide in crimes of violence , often impulsive reactions to events , as to warrant the difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 87 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 88 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 89 | On Feb. 25 , two alleged GKN members , Imran Hasan and Hasbi Abdullah were sentenced to seven and five years ' imprisonment respectively on national security grounds . |
| 90 | Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment . |