Example sentences of "have [adj] year ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 2 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 3 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 4 | Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites . |
| 5 | Roy has held many management positions and has 36 years ' experience in carpets . |
| 6 | She has several years ' experience of teaching in the Sudan . |
| 7 | Sean Clarke has several years ' experience with Knockdene where he was formerly an after sales service advisor . |
| 8 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 9 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's linked with business , with the fluctuations of the stock exchange , ’ explains Paul Smith , who has 20 years ' experience of designing for men . |
| 11 | National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists . |
| 12 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 13 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 14 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 15 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 16 | A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools . |
| 17 | ‘ This is this sort of material we are seeking to make the publication more readable , ’ added Mr Stewart , an air frame fitter at Alanbrooke Barracks , Topcliffe , who had six years ' service in the Royal Navy and is a TA member with 124 Recovery Co. at Newton Aycliffe . |
| 18 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 19 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 20 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 21 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 22 | After all , I had nine years ' experience in special education . |
| 23 | Busby had five years ' experience in the lower divisions with York and helped lift the club out of the doldrums . |
| 24 | He was young , well educated , had several years ' work experience under his belt . |
| 25 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 26 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 27 | ROSEMARY MOON had seven years ' experience in the domestic appliance industry , both in research and international marketing , before embarking on a freelance career . |
| 28 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 29 | The Soars each have many years ' experience as teachers and teacher trainers in the UK and abroad . |
| 30 | George Giangrande and his partners , Sarah Wood and landscape architect Richard Lemmon , have many years ' garden design and construction experience . |