Example sentences of "with [adj] years ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The Restaurant Manager retired six months later , and was re placed by another outsider , this time a male HND diploma holder with eight years ' experience in hotels and restaurants . |
2 | Three signers were presented as illustrations : a deaf man ( signer 1 ) , a hearing man with eight years ' experience ( signer 2 ) and a hearing man whose parents were deaf and who learned BSL as a first language ( signer 3 ) . |
3 | In a debt reduction agreement ratified by the Council of State on May 1 , 1989 , Paraguay was granted a new period of 20 years , with eight years ' grace , for the payment of its $436,000,000 debt to Brazil . |
4 | Wendy , with eleven years ' experience , is also an experienced ‘ Picker & Setter . ’ |
5 | I was merely a naval officer , with some years ' experience in intelligence , and two languages . |
6 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
7 | Homesitters , with 12 years ' experience , is probably the longest-running agency in the home-minding field . |
8 | The final member of the group is John Perry , a Leading Shunter with six years ' experience with the railway . |
9 | G Lawrence of Great Barr , Birmingham is a police dog handler with 10 years ' experience of owning German Shepherd dogs . |
10 | As a home economist with 10 years ' experience in consumer products , and mother of three young boys , she has first-hand experience of tackling practical problems . |
11 | As a home economist with 10 years ' experience in consumer products , and mother of three young boys , she has first-hand experience of tackling practical problems . |
12 | Repayments on 86 per cent of this total would be rescheduled over 20 years ( with a 10-year grace period ) and on the remaining 14 per cent over 15 years ( with 10 years ' grace ) . |
13 | Fariz provided no details of the amounts involved , but said that the accord provided a 10-year repayment period with 10 years ' grace for official debt originally due for repayment between 1991 and mid-1993 . |
14 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
15 | It was outlined in the Housing Act ( 1980 ) , which gave council tenants with three years ' residence the right to buy their properties at a substantial discount . |
16 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
17 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
18 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
19 | I 've seen one sergeant with fourteen years ' service chuck it and go to Australia , saying : ‘ I 've had enough of this bloody job . ’ |
20 | With 7–10 years ' experience , it is essential that he/she has experience of reporting on multi-disciplinary project . |
21 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
22 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking , camping and backpacking at home and abroad |
23 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home and abroad . |
24 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home |
25 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home and abroad |
26 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
27 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
28 | The arrangement provided for the repayment of all the principal owed for 1989 and 1990 and half the interest payable for 1989 over a 10-year period with five years ' grace . |
29 | Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them . |
30 | She is a married woman of intelligence and maturity with twenty years ' experience . |