Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike takes the editor 's chair from Allan Olleveant who has retired from ICI after 41 years service . |
| 2 | ‘ When they returned to England after two years Mamma went with them . |
| 3 | Martin Schofield retired at the end of May after 40 years service with the company . |
| 4 | Widower Mr Taylor retired as chairman of the governors at nearby Coxley School in July after 15 years service . |
| 5 | Tickets for Olds Scumford on New Years day are on sale only to those people who went to the Sunderland away game . |
| 6 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Sigsworth to three years imprisonment . |
| 7 | Recently retired DCC Michael McAtamney was the longest serving police officer in the UK with 45 years service . |
| 8 | I am already looking forward to Atlanta in four years time . ’ |
| 9 | One of ETA 's senior leaders , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea " Josu Ternera " , was on Nov. 26 sentenced by a court in Paris to 10 years imprisonment for membership of a terrorist organization , and banned from residence in France for five years after his release . |
| 10 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 11 | Geraldine Phillips recently left Wood Group Offshore Ltd , Great Yarmouth after two years service . |
| 12 | He sentenced teenager Mark Acklom to four years youth custody after he posed as a City stockbroker in a £466,000 mortgage fraud . |
| 13 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to keep playing well , and if I ca n't make the team then I want to be in a position to give myself a real chance in America in two years time . ’ |
| 15 | Sentencing Davis to seven years imprisonment , Judge Francis Allen told him . |
| 16 | 5–2 Another gift was recorded ; that of Mrs and Miss McTavish , widow and daughter , now residing in Mull , of the late Rev. Mr McTavish for many years minister at Kildalton . |
| 17 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 18 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |