Example sentences of "[noun sg] in twelve [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to sacrifice maybe holidays this year , and maybe have a couple of long weekend breaks , as long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months , keep my family fed and watered I 'm Okay , then I 'm going to take stock in twelve months ' time . |
| 2 | The OED is a huge work in twelve volumes compiled between 1879 and 1928 . |
| 3 | Four men do a job in twelve hours . |
| 4 | Four men do a job in twelve hours . |
| 5 | Four men do the job in twelve hours . |
| 6 | During the 1980s , inflation in Britain measured by the retail price index averaged around 6 per cent per annum ; a rate sufficient to halve the real value of a fixed sum of money in twelve years . |
| 7 | So Randolph Henry Ash , ca 1840 , when he was writing Ragnarök , a poem in twelve books , which some saw as a Christianising of the Norse myth and some trounced as atheistic and diabolically despairing . |
| 8 | By 1974 , when he finished Music in Twelve Parts , Glass 's ideas had crystallized in two techniques he calls ‘ additive process ’ and ‘ cyclic structure ’ . |
| 9 | There are 300,000,000,000,000 fermis in twelve inches . |
| 10 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |
| 11 | If you want to do some writing with it to explain earth rotates half way in twelve hours that 's up to you . |
| 12 | Since 1982 the Museum has produced an average of five works a year in twelve issues numbered 1 to 8 in Arabic figures and I to IV in Latin numerals . |
| 13 | Arguing that Richard 's attack on Toulouse was a breach of the truce of 1187 — which Richard denied — Philip invaded Berry for the second time in twelve months , though he first took care to ascertain that Henry II disclaimed any responsibility for his son 's actions and was therefore unlikely to move swiftly to his assistance . |
| 14 | In my opinion , I think we 'll have an application for a garage in twelve months ' time . |