Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 People join the savings club and after 12 weeks ' contributing can get loans at 1 per cent interest .
2 An Essay on Food Reform and in 1892 Animals ' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress ( reissued in 1900 , 1905 , and 1915 ) .
3 There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise .
4 Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount .
5 And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey .
6 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 .
7 By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months .
8 He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively .
9 I assure the Minister that in six months ' time , when he is in opposition , we will be kinder to him and much more open with information .
10 The provision as to three months ' notice has to be read with the limitation that there can only be dismissal for good cause .
11 I do not want to know what she intends doing in a year 's time or in 10 years ' time , because she will not be in government then .
12 After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government .
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