Example sentences of "four years [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Theodora 's tone was so gentle , so unemphatic , almost deferential — the tone of a deacon of four years ' experience to a senior cleric of thirty years — that it took the edge off her words . |
2 | She had been teaching New Zealand , erm , not quite such a long training so she 's had three or four years ' experience . |
3 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
4 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
5 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
6 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
7 | ‘ Four years ' work and $12 million could go down the tubes , ’ said Conner . |
8 | The report , the product of four years ' work by a special WEC committee , attempts to bring renewable energy sources into the council 's calculations for the first time . |
9 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
10 | The project comes after four years ' work involving Cancer Research Campaign scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research , in Sutton , Surrey , and a team at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund genetics laboratory in Leeds . |
11 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |
12 | At her farewell presentation , Jean Henry ( centre ) holds a bouquet of flowers given to her on retirement in February after twenty four years ' service . |
13 | After forty four years ' service with the company David Smith , Shift Supervisor , retired on 19th February . |
14 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
15 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
16 | Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Sentence : four years ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
19 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
20 | Stepan was sentenced on July 9 to four years ' imprisonment for abusing the powers of a public official and inciting others to commit the same offence . |
21 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
22 | Three skinheads were each sentenced in Frankfurt-an-der Oder on Sept. 14 to four years ' imprisonment for beating up three African immigrants , one of whom subsequently died , in Eberswalde in November 1991 . |
23 | 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 ] . |
24 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
25 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |
26 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
27 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
28 | £30,000 lorry hijack earns four years ' jail |
29 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
30 | Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time . |