Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had eleven years ' good service before the start of war . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He owned the plane and had 300 hours ' flying experience . |
| 4 | Arriving in tltis self-proclaimed cultural centre of Australia , we had 30 minutes ' stopover while the big Australian National Railway diesels were uncoupled and a new pair attached for the journey to New South Wales . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Most of the larger stations in the United States had separate immigrants ' waiting-rooms . |
| 7 | However , I stayed a bit longer and when all the girls , all of us had three months ' notice to leave , it was dreadful , you see , because we were fully trained by that time you see . |
| 8 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | After all , I had nine years ' experience in special education . |
| 15 | Busby had five years ' experience in the lower divisions with York and helped lift the club out of the doldrums . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was young , well educated , had several years ' work experience under his belt . |
| 18 | All had several days ' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing . |
| 19 | So we never had any doctors ' bills . |
| 20 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 21 | He had two days ' respite before Bella delivered her deathblows . |
| 22 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 24 | ROSEMARY MOON had seven years ' experience in the domestic appliance industry , both in research and international marketing , before embarking on a freelance career . |