Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [num] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
| 2 | In some versions of this type of forecasting , the buyer is obliged to purchase the requirements detailed in the first three months of the rolling forecast , so that , in effect , as he rolls his forecast on , he places an order for the first three months ' requirements and forecasts those of the next nine months . |
| 3 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 4 | And during the bitter 1984 miners ' strike the cranes were kept busy unloading imports of Australian coal for power stations . |
| 5 | It also means that the real value of the redemption payment will vary according to the rate of inflation during the last eight months ' life of a bond and so calculations of real yields to redemption can only be made on the basis of assumed rates of inflation . |
| 6 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 7 | On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay . |
| 8 | After a hectic three months ' work load , by a small but willing group of members , the BCRS Museum is up and running |
| 9 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 10 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 11 | At Chantilly , news of the first two days ' fighting had not particularly upset General Joffre . |
| 12 | In contrast to Pilkingtons , vital conceptual ingredients of the other two firms ' change initiatives were derived from organizational links with multinational corporations . |
| 13 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 14 | Its key element was a relaxation of the past two years ' tight monetary controls in an effort to halt recession . |
| 15 | THE new issue of the Film Yearbook ( Virgin , £6.99 ) includes comments from several film-makers on the quality of the past 12 months ' cinema . |
| 16 | In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education . |
| 17 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 18 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
| 19 | The most popular announcement — from the boys ' point of view at least — was that of an extra two days ' holiday to mark the Anniversary . |
| 20 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 21 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 22 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 23 | Opposing change were the city 's communists , Gorbachev , the USSR Supreme Soviet , and many older citizens who associate the current name with the heroic 900 days ' wartime siege of Leningrad . |
| 24 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 25 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 26 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 27 | you 've done at least some work in the last two weeks ' maths lessons . |
| 28 | Both Campbell and the AMA 's Guy Robertson believe the government will stick to the next three years ' funding pledges . |
| 29 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 30 | The additional earnings-related components of the state pension is based on the best twenty years ' earnings , so those who are out of the labour market for substantial periods ( mainly women ) have little choice of which periods of earnings to take . |