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How to use years' in a sentence

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At the end of two years' research when all tests had proved satisfactory the project fell into a state of dormancy.
Forty years' experience has shown this is easier said than done, but surely it's possible.
I know your new years' resolutions were probably broken weeks ago, but there's always a chance to turn over a new leaf.
They will be accompanied by an information pack and sticker with the next two years' collection details.
I am a pension actuary with 27 years' experience working with traditional defined-benefit pension plans.
One railman with 20 years' experience, who asked not to be named, spoke of the stress he and his colleagues suffer.
We have been going out for two and a half years and, if all goes well, we plan to go to Cyprus in two years' time to get married.
Each year, the number of breeding pairs and successfully reared young will be compared to previous years' numbers.
If you're at least a senior airman with three years' Air Force experience, you can submit a package.
To get a decent sense of the trend, calculate at least two years' worth of quarterly inventory sales numbers.
At present rates of consumption there are 30 or 40 years' worth of oil known to be retrievable using present methods.
He had no devoted readership and little chance of remaining in print for long, let alone being republished in thirty or forty years' time.
Once upon a time, Labor leaders drove trains or sheared sheep or, at the very least, did a few years' yakka on the factory floor.
Sure enough, hidden in a corner there was a shelf dedicated to the previous school years' yearbooks.
The former Royal Engineers lance corporal had 14 years' service with West Midlands Police.
It could even be that this contract will be viewed in five years' time as having led to a renaissance of general practice.
The commentary is quiet, informative, credible and, in a few years' time, will probably be replaced by an excited yoof.
The present charter expires in three years' time and must be the last in the present form.
Waller does not like to speculate on where he sees himself in five years' time.
Through no fault of the architects, the building will need major maintenance in a few years' time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. Osborne had had thirty years' experience with the impecuniosity of authors.
A few years' knowledge of other countries than our own will not incapacitate me for that part.
My grandfather Osler died at Simons Town, after some years' residence there.
As pithily as might be, for she was in no condition for tedious listening, I gave her the history of her nine years' sleep.
Three or four years' attendance at a high or secondary school is a necessary preparation for first-class office work.
Indeed the fruit of his many years' study of aeronautic conditions was ready for the gathering at this very moment.
If you time your visit between Maunday and Lammas, you obtain fourteen thousand years' pardon.
In September 1697 he went to Civita Vecchia under sentence of three years' relegation.
The King of Calicut, on the Malabar Coast, used to cut his throat in public after a twelve years' reign.
In 1602 he obtained Tyrone's surrender in Ireland after three years' fighting.
I picked you a forget-me-not from the old Rector's grave, for he has gone home, after fifty-nine years' pastorship of Amesbury.
There he studied the Greek and Chaldaic languages, becoming master of both after seven years' attention.
He was degraded, deprived of his nobiliary privileges, and condemned to twenty years' hard labour.
The guide shown is nonbinding and has been found thoroughly practical after several years' use on furniture.
In 1389 a seven years' peace was arranged, and Glarus returned to the Confederation.
After several years' culture the zinnia has only lately begun to vary in any great degree.
It can't be possible that a seasoned veteran of two years' experience can pick up points from a come-on?
Joe Kivelson is just an outsize edition of his son, with a blond beard that's had thirty-five years' more growth.
He has been tried and convicted of swindling, in France, and sentenced to five years' reclusion, with labour.
It was a gruelling four years' struggle, but with success at the end of it.
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