Example sentences of "get [adj] years [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 2 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 4 | We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts . |
| 5 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 6 | It 's two years since we 've done it so we 've got two years ’ worth of playing and they 've got two years ' worth of applause . ’ |
| 7 | And essentially you can get two years ' worth of records in , in a storage binder . |
| 8 | The first time I got charged with chequebooks and cards I got two years ' probation . |