Example sentences of "[num] [adj] year ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A multichannel spectrum analyser , with the capability of scanning 10,000,000 frequencies simultaneously in the microwave portion of the spectrum , would work in tandem with some of the world 's largest radio telescopes in a targeted survey of solar type stars within 75 light years ' distance . |
| 2 | After forty four years ' service with the company David Smith , Shift Supervisor , retired on 19th February . |
| 3 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 4 | 1977 ) , and a sediment core 2.8 m long from neighbouring Lake Fryxell is estimated from C-14 dating to represent over 50 000 years ' deposition ( Parker and Simmons , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | With twenty six years ' experience in industry , Jim McDaid was appointed to the position of Chief Industrial Engineer for Stoddard Carpets Ltd . |
| 6 | TWENTY FIVE YEARS ' SERVICE |
| 7 | Yeah well you see John 's got about twenty five years ' experience with computers on me . |
| 8 | So we have to keep ahead of that , because we 're planning the benefits for you , twenty or twenty five years ' time . |
| 9 | So we have to make sure the money you pay to us , actually is going to grow so it gives you a very good return on that money in twenty five years ' time . |
| 10 | At her farewell presentation , Jean Henry ( centre ) holds a bouquet of flowers given to her on retirement in February after twenty four years ' service . |
| 11 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 12 | In 1902–6 he had four adventurous years ' attachment to the King 's African Rifles , serving up-country in Kenya , where he discovered a new species ( Hylochaeros meinertzhageni , the giant forest hog ) . |
| 13 | Mr Chairman , er , I 'd like to thank you for those nice words of introduction but I am particularly delighted as I am a lifelong member of the G M B , of almost thirty five years ' standing , due to my employment with British Gas and my long membership with the Labour Party . |
| 14 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |
| 15 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 16 | Arthur Hawthorn ( right ) , Threading Supervisor in the Crabtree weaving department has retired after thirty five years ' service with the company . |
| 17 | After two successful years ' trading , Nomad Books of Fulham in central London has moved into larger premises . |
| 18 | The same will be true of readers in two hundred years ' time , and before and after . |
| 19 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |