Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 2 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 3 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 4 | On Dec. 1 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from 20 years ' to 10 years ' hard labour . |
| 5 | The pronoun here therefore " points forwards ' to subsequent elaboration in the form of full noun phrases such as " two soldiers ' , " the officer " and " the soldiers ' . |
| 6 | George Taylor was collected and he and Mrs Oliver returned to the tobacconists ' to be joined shortly by PC Chandler , an off-duty policeman who happened to be in Higatt 's too . |
| 7 | In collaboration with Imperial College , the methods developed in the earlier regional studies have now been adapted to the urban environment in order to enable environmental factors and epidemiological patterns and 'hot spots ' to be compared with the natural background geochemistry and with the environmental contamination of soil , water and air arising from industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 8 | In order to ensure a personally loyal military apparats , he also launched the full-scale organisation of the ’ popular militias ' to be recruited principally from among the peasantry and the urban lower class . |