Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 2 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 3 | A row about 100 cm ( 3 ft ) long is ample for one family 's needs for most herbs . |
| 4 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 5 | There is a minimum charge for this of one week 's rent , and single accommodation only is available . |
| 6 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 7 | So , although we are seeking approval now , for the whole total , we will in fact pay half in six months ' time er as is normal procedure on , on our water bills . |
| 8 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 9 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 10 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 11 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 12 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 13 | Mrs Shephard said the unemployment figures were ‘ a glimmer of hope ’ but added that it would be foolish to build too much into one month 's statistics . |
| 14 | At five o'clock we wandered back ; after all , it might get dark in fifteen days ' time . |
| 15 | To which Theseus replies : This state is not Subject to one man 's will , but is a free city . |
| 16 | You can have all or part of your savings back in cash whenever you like , subject to seven days ' notice . |
| 17 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 18 | Hamadi Jebali : a 51-year-old newspaper editor from Sousse , he was sentenced by the military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991 to one year 's imprisonment for publishing an article calling for the abolition of military courts . |
| 19 | MONCEF TRIKI : a father of four , he was held in prolonged incommunicado detention , tortured and then sentenced in August 1991 to 15 months ' imprisonment after an unfair trial . |
| 20 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 21 | Six to eight weeks ' notice is advisable . |
| 22 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 23 | Helmut Voigt , a former officer of the East German state security police ( Stasi ) , was sentenced in Athens on Sept. 10 to 10 months ' imprisonment for entering the country on a false passport . |
| 24 | She advises me that the treatment involves the implant of brain cells from an aborted foetus which must be 10 to 11 weeks ' gestation . |
| 25 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 26 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 27 | Depending on the driver 's experience of mountain roads , anything from 7 to 9 hours ' driving is involved . |
| 28 | Perinatal mortality is lowest at 40 weeks ' gestation and does not increase until after 42 weeks , and then only slightly . |
| 29 | Crawford , as a post office clerk further down the cast , was paid just 350 for five weeks ' work . |
| 30 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |