Example sentences of "[num] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only IR bands without Raman counterparts should be due to a 2 ' modes . |
| 2 | With no hint that unification was soon forthcoming , the Sevens ' organisers sent their invitation elsewhere , and despite the absence of the Springboks , the April 4–5 tournament will still see some new faces . |
| 3 | One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings . |
| 4 | There were old roses climbing up these walls and other old roses in borders — I mean really old ones , not nineteen twenties ' and thirties ' ones which catalogues count as old . |
| 5 | Catharsis there 's nothing like reflecting in tranquillity to help heal those wounds , and most of them were pretty bruised by the nineteen eighties ' experiences of the recent crop . |
| 6 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 7 | Old-style Eighties ' computers , sold with high margin and short lifespan , have long ago been cost-depreciated to zero by corporations . |
| 8 | It showed a bright-faced man running on a beach with two girls , both of whom were wearing fifties ' bikinis . |
| 9 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 10 | She had the kind of wide , alluring brown eyes the Fifties ' authors would have described as ‘ big enough to drown a man ’ . |
| 11 | Potiphar with its slick routines from six girls in 1920s ' costumes was superb . |
| 12 | The two a 1 ' modes will be polarized . |
| 13 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 14 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 15 | Miss Hepburn , best known for starring roles in such 1960s ' classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's , recently toured refugee camps in famine-ravaged Somalia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation 's children 's fund . |
| 16 | In the first case a combination of inflation and world growth ultimately saved us ( as it did so many other sixties ' optimists ) , and subsequently ammonia and fertilizers became one of our most successful businesses . |
| 17 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 18 | That Mrs Gould was allowed to put her question in front of the cameras proved television was stocked with sixties ' radicals who were bent on sabotage . |
| 19 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 20 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 21 | Margaret Howell , British fashion 's great classicist , recently launched her first capsule collection of swimwear , based on Forties ' shapes . |