Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] years ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
2 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
3 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
4 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
5 | This would render fruitless two and a half years ' negotiations between LAG and BP Coal leaving LAG to start from scratch with a new company . |
6 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
7 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
8 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |