Example sentences of "years ' [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For successful students who possess at least two years ' relevant experience and have been members of the Institute for at least two years , the Banking Certificate leads to a qualification in its own right — the Cert . |
| 2 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 3 | A further important European issue concerns the adoption by the European Council of a Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of at least three years ' professional education and training . |
| 4 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 5 | Doctors who performed illegal abortions would be subject to up to 10 years ' hard labour and fines not exceeding $100,000 . |
| 6 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 7 | After 20 years ' waiting Esau and Jacob are born . |