Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landlord can distrain against goods and effects compromised in the bankrupt 's estate but only for six months ' rent accrued due before the commencement of the bankruptcy ( s347(1) ) . |
| 2 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 3 | Whilst Rick 's aim in changing the curriculum was to focus on mathematical thinking , this was at odds not only with many parents ' perceptions of mathematics , but also those of one member of his department and the headteacher . |
| 4 | She knew Maisie 's mother from the days when she had stood the Wednesday market along with other farmers ' wives , but had never met Len Brayton , the girl 's father . |
| 5 | Some give open-ended contracts , others employ their seasonal workers on a succession of fixed-term contracts of essentially an arbitrary duration ( usually between 10 and 12 weeks ) which contain an additional clause allowing the employer to terminate them prematurely with one weeks ' notice . |
| 6 | In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice . |
| 7 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 8 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 9 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 10 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 11 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 12 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 13 | Then one day , just for old times ' sake , I paid a visit to Winston Street . |
| 14 | One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek . |
| 15 | Just for old times ' sake … |
| 16 | Governments acquiesce in the House allotting the 20 Fridays mentioned above for Private Members ' motions ( 10 days ) and Bills ( 10 days ) . |
| 17 | Courses are generally of 12 months ' duration by full-time study . |
| 18 | These degrees are generally of 21–24 months ' duration by full-time study , 36 months full-time for the MPhil in Clinical Psychology . |
| 19 | By the time Charlie and Tommy climbed through the ropes , Tommy had made it clear to his friend that he hoped to get away with three minutes ' shadow-boxing . |
| 20 | And definitely not with several days ' growth of beard on an aggressively masculine jaw , or with so much … so much compelling strength in his face , in his ice-blue eyes . |
| 21 | It seems to be confirmed , moreover , by the resemblance between the meccanico ostinato figure at Ellen 's entrance after the " Old Joe " round ( originally the " away from tidal waves ' motif ) and the crapshooting ostinato in Act One of Porgy , among other similarities of detail . |
| 22 | The plaintiff , wishing to have monies now and not in two years ' time , prudently accepted the settlement figure . |
| 23 | Thus in 5 years ' time a benefit of £80,000 will have increased to £102,102.52 . |
| 24 | As a primary objective , the establishment of standards-based hardware and software interfaces to enable users to move software easily among different vendors ' systems using the RISC family , has advanced significantly , Hewlett says . |
| 25 | His disguise would pass in a crowded street , but not at six inches ' range . |
| 26 | He had no ambitions to play Hook and certainly not at four days ' notice . |
| 27 | These days golf managers parcel up their clients rather like those butchers ' pictures of carcases with dotted lines showing the different joints . |
| 28 | Real witnessing is more about answering friends ' questions than telling strangers things that they are not interested in . |
| 29 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 30 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |