Example sentences of "years ' [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ How may years ' experience does she recommend that an editor clock ( sic ) up … ’ chides Miss Phillips .
2 How many years ' experience does she recommend that an editor clock up before attempting to master the use of apostrophes and capitalisation ?
3 After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile :
4 I 've seen one sergeant with fourteen years ' service chuck it and go to Australia , saying : ‘ I 've had enough of this bloody job . ’
5 Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . "
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