Example sentences of "[prep] four years ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 8 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 9 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 10 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 11 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 12 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 13 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 14 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 15 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 16 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 17 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 18 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 19 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 20 | The BEng ( Hons ) course is of four years ' duration . |
| 21 | The course is of four years ' duration . |
| 22 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 23 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 24 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time . |
| 27 | ‘ Look forward to welcoming Toby to the reception class in four years ' time ! ’ |
| 28 | But to realise the blossoming of those parties is Labour 's most important challenge , the key to power in four years ' time . |
| 29 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 30 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |