Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [num] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations .
2 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
3 To incorporate the various categories of course , it is proposed that the phased transition should consist of three years ' batches of courses .
4 Reports that the economy might improve in six months ' time .
5 But then the hubbub starts again , and other voices ask me what I 'll do in 20 years ' time .
6 Each training session should begin with 5 minutes ' stretching , 5 minutes ' skipping and a 15-second circuit of the fitness determination routine ( see page 8 ) .
7 On returning to Rome , Thomas went again to the curia and the pope informed him that the case would begin in three days ' time .
8 GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 .
9 But what I 'm wearing now I 'll be wearing in a year or eighteen months , it does n't chop and change like a fashion ; the meaning it has now is the same one it will have in eighteen months ' time .
10 Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate .
11 Industrialists have to market their new products without knowing what will happen in 30 years ' time , although accelerated weathering or ageing tests may give some idea .
12 Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time .
13 The poem would arrive in two days ' time .
14 This distinction has to be made because , although loans may be redeemed over 60 years , it is extremely unlikely that a financing instrument could be found which would mature in 60 years ' time .
15 I , I did say in two weeks ' time
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