Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 3 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 4 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 5 | After 21 days ' culture there were 8.29 ( 0.74 ) ×10 6 cells in control cultures ( mean ( SEM ) ) . |
| 6 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 7 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 10 | Carrick reached that rank after twenty years ' service which included considerable experience in the intermediate rank of supervisor of excise at Forfar before being advanced to his collectorship . |
| 11 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 12 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 13 | She decided that a man of sixty years ' experience who , when surprised , let so much of his thoughts show in his face was probably not a very good banker . |
| 14 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |
| 15 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 16 | In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘ |
| 17 | Rita is a machine knitter of 20 years ' standing who has taught many techniques of the craft . |
| 18 | is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours . |
| 19 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 20 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 21 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
| 22 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 23 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 24 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 25 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
| 26 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 27 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 28 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 29 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 30 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |