Example sentences of "years ' [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 2 | ‘ Fields of Vision — Dreams of View ’ — Dawson 's first exhibition dedicated to personal creative work and the result of two years ' work in collage — is showing at Smiths ' Gallery 3 in Covent Garden from 17–22 February . |
| 3 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 4 | Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment in December 1989 for ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations . |
| 5 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 6 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 7 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 8 | As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 . |
| 9 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 10 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 11 | Prisoner of conscience Yndamiro Restano , president of an unofficial opposition group known as the Harmony Movement , was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in May ( see Worldwide Appeal , pages 20–21 ) . |
| 12 | The evidence against Sukarno was flimsy and when he was eventually sentenced to four years ' imprisonment in December 1930 one eminent Dutch professor , J.M.J. Schepper , condemned the verdict as violating the great Dutch legal tradition . |
| 13 | Five members of the ( then banned ) South African African National Congress ( ANC ) were sentenced in July 1989 in Gaborone to five years ' imprisonment in July 1989 for possessing AK-47 rifles and ammunition . |
| 14 | He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] . |
| 15 | Also arrested on June 6 was veteran dissident , the Rev. Moon Ik Hwan , 73 , a Presbyterian minister sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment in 1989 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea . |
| 16 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 17 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 18 | On Dec. 14 Sergei Parfyonov , the former deputy commander in Riga of the Soviet Interior Ministry troops , the OMON , was sentenced by a Latvian court to four years ' imprisonment in a corrective labour camp for " exceeding his authority " during events in Riga in January 1991 [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 19 | Rancher Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment in 1990 for the killing of Mendes in 1988 . |
| 20 | Our advice is based on nearly 200 years ' experience in the Oxfordshire property market . |
| 21 | ROSEMARY MOON had seven years ' experience in the domestic appliance industry , both in research and international marketing , before embarking on a freelance career . |
| 22 | As an example of AEA 's capabilities , its Environmental Safety Centre has almost 20 years ' experience in all aspects of disposal and treatment of domestic , industrial and toxic wastes , as well as providing consultancy , research and technical services , including environmental audits and assessments , waste management and environmental pollution research on an international basis . |
| 23 | With over 15 years ' experience in waste management , it can sample , analyse , treat using chemical fixation and dispose of wastes at its own treatment plant , transfer stations and landfill sites . |
| 24 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 25 | We employ friendly , professional staff who can offer the benefit of many years ' experience in the housing market . |
| 26 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 27 | Over the last fraction of his 34 years ' experience in the hobby , Chris has dispensed with all the traditional off the shelf treatments and remedies for fish and has turned to ‘ natural medicine ’ , centred mainly around the use of herbs — with great success . |
| 28 | What 's more , Bill has had the benefit of 15 years ' experience in roomset photography for his advertising clients . |
| 29 | Dr Barsamian is a bio-physicist with over thirty years ' experience in the study of polymers and bio-polymers and their dielectric nature , As he explains : |
| 30 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |