Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 2 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 3 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
| 4 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |
| 5 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
| 6 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 7 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 8 | Sentence : two years and nine months ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |