Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 2 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 3 | A graphic artists ' cutting board will cost a lot for the large size required so , unless it is part of your daily function , forget it . |
| 4 | Six months ' building work would be supervised by the seven nuns and funding came from worldwide donations . |
| 5 | Last hours of murdered lovers ' lane couple could yield clue . |
| 6 | At his own request , in three weeks ' time Fluff will quit the Sunday lunch-time show on Radio 1 which launched his amazing career as Britain 's premier disc jockey . |
| 7 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 8 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 9 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 10 | Maybe he would n't be bringing the certificate today , but then again in ten minutes ' time Sampson could be on his way down to the police station with an open envelope . |
| 11 | BBC The Educator : Secondary schools ' radio programmes should end and the Open University production facility should close . |
| 12 | But Customs have agreed that the requirement to obtain overseas customers ' VAT numbers need not be implemented until 1 July 1993 . |
| 13 | The various districts ' council tax will have to be added to that . |
| 14 | If its Secretariat 's proposals are agreed to , " farming will become more rather than less intensive , global brands will erode local foods and developing countries ' food self-reliance will be undermined " . |
| 15 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 16 | I suspect that in another hundred years ' time people will look back and wonder at our apparent inability to regard sound recordings as permanent media , like books , music , or paintings . |
| 17 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 18 | However , an inspection of both projects ' cash flows might cause most readers to query this preference since the total cash inflows of Project B exceed those of Project A by £20,000 . |
| 19 | Most customers ' taste buds will have to endure the gluey variety for some time yet … but post offices with philatelic counters are already stocking sticky stamps . |