Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | AN all-weather soccer pitch made of supertough plastic is out of action after only six months ' use . |
2 | With $36 million in the box-office after only five weeks ' release , and the movie yet to travel outside America , big profits are guaranteed . |
3 | Benson died after only three days ' illness 5 July 1924 at his cottage , Castle Corner , in Manorbier , Pembrokeshire . |
4 | After just 12 months ' training , they will be able to teach nursery and infant pupils . |
5 | After about two months ' work on the picture , including four days ' shooting , Ronald Neame — a veteran cinematographer , producer and director of British films — left , claiming too much interference from Zanuck . |
6 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
7 | The details of the timetable motion allow for just five days ' debate on a Bill which is 103 pages long , contains 94 clauses and nine schedules and which must report back to the House by 26 February . |
8 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
9 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
10 | The group aims to provide customers with a path through the maze of vastly differing vendors ' licence agreements , and hopes to sell Advance on the back of this activity . |
11 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |
12 | I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration . |
13 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
14 | Blessed with a perfect 9st 5lb race riding physique , he is immune from the lettuce leaf diet and stamina-sapping sauna sessions which are the bane of so many jockeys ' lives . |
15 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
16 | With some types of account a depositor can withdraw a certain amount of money on demand , but will have to pay a penalty of so many days ' interest . |
17 | Providing recordings of approximately 10 hours ' duration on open reel tape . |
18 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately 55 minutes ' duration , consisting of 8 programmes of approximately 7 minutes each . |
19 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each . |
20 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each . |
21 | SIR — As a master mariner of nearly 40 years ' standing , I am continually upset by the criticism of Captain Lord ( report , April 3 ) . |
22 | But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation . |
23 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
24 | The cash was the equivalent of about two years ' salary for the education director , Frank Pignatelli . |
25 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
26 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
27 | But much more detailed and as a result not only of about twelve days ' training which we 've undertaken in that area with the management team , or various of them , but also of our experience over the last eighteen months in operating it . |
28 | recommended that the procedure is applied to spontaneous speech samples of about 30 minutes ' duration , although there is no reason why this should not be varied . |
29 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
30 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |