Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's not Street or the Four Seasons ' Centre either . |
| 2 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 3 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 4 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 5 | He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO . |
| 6 | At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue . |
| 7 | At the end of the 14th round of the US-Soviet talks on Dec. 15 , the US ambassador to the UNCD , Max Friedersdorf , commented that the two countries ' positions were " fairly close together on most issues ' and that there was a good chance that a chemical weapons treaty would be signed within two years . |
| 8 | Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has issued a certification stating that the two countries ' trade in such items diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 9 | After a first session on June 8 near Brno , Klaus declared that the two sides ' views were " fundamentally different " . |
| 10 | The trial judge , Millett J. , reached the conclusion that the six months ' notice served by the London Residuary Body was a good notice . |
| 11 | An East German parliamentary committee yesterday dismissed a draft travel law , saying that the 30 days ' travel to be granted a year in no way met people 's expectations . |
| 12 | The report shows that the 12 members ' emissions of CO2 are likely to total 2,878 million tonnes , compared to the 1990 level of 2,775 million tonnes , which is the target . |
| 13 | This comparison of procedures reveals that the CMI Rules ' receipt message plays the role of both a paper based dock or mate 's receipt and of a preliminary bill of lading . |
| 14 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 15 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 16 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 17 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 18 | The prospect of a rabid Irish nationalist invasion of Northern Ireland from the Republic in order to swamp the poll is unreal in more than one sense and it is very doubtful if the three months ' residence requirement is necessary . |
| 19 | Antiochus ' persecution and the Seven Brothers ' martyrdom typified the situation . |
| 20 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |
| 21 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 22 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |
| 23 | As soon as the 15 seconds ' rest has elapsed , you must start the next exercise . |