Example sentences of "some [adj] years ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage SGB Group already had some 12 years ' experience in processing by computer its main business systems . |
| 2 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 3 | The former training division is an established one of some 25 years ' standing . |
| 4 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 5 | One major achievement was the adoption , by the influential Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Community ( CCBE ) — after some 15 years ' debate — of a draft directive on rights of establishment under home title . |
| 6 | The EEC this month revealed that Europe 's nuclear industry holds a stockpile of some four years ' supply of enriched uranium . |