Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
| 2 | Existing gainers of the subsidy would presumably be given a further five years ' grace , and new recruits would similarly benefit . |
| 3 | However , since menstrual cycles can be irregular First Response has a refill kit to enable a further three days ' tests , which allows nine out of 10 ovulating women to detect their surge . |
| 4 | The UK Telecommunications Users Association has formed a new Mobile Users ' Special Interest Group , intended to represent users across a range of mobile technologies such as cellular , paging , mobile data and private and public cordless communications . |
| 5 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 6 | The government , however , attempted to avert a threatened national teachers ' strike , by claiming that the emergency tax plan had raised enough revenues to increase their wages . |
| 7 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 8 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 9 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 10 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 11 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 12 | Sir Alexander , Professor of Medicine at the King 's College , revealed that in peacetime Aberdeen exported a hundred thousand pounds ' worth of stockings a year , and in wartime a hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 13 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 15 | More Tory ( 54 ) than Labour ( 28 ) MPs supported a 1926 Private Members ' bill to enable local authority welfare centres to give family-planning advice to married women . |
| 16 | Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget . |
| 17 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 18 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 19 | Destroyed a few 17-year olds ' ambitions for a while , I can tell you . ’ |
| 20 | Destroyed a few 17-year olds ' ambitions for a while , I can tell you . ’ |
| 21 | Old longline and squid jigging vessels are re-equipped with inexpensive nets instead of being retired , and are sent out to return a few more seasons ' profits . |