Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 2 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 3 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 4 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 5 | If only five per cent of car journeys were made by bus or train instead it would save over a quarter of a million tonnes ' worth of pollutant each year . |
| 6 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |