Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
2 | Basically , however , secure tenants of three years ' standing can buy their houses at discounts ranging from 33 per cent of market price to a maximum of 50 per cent . |
3 | Unless cash ratios were imposed on every single financial institution , the control of certain institutions ' lending would merely shift business to other uncontrolled institutions . |
4 | The rapid recording or repetition of the circumstances of longitudinal experiments in science meant that in a day and a night , without any intervention from a pupil or a teacher , the replication of two terms ' work could be completed . |
5 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
6 | In this decorators ' dreamland may be found marble columns , ornamental birds , chimney pieces , lecterns , windows and plaster busts . |
7 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
8 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
9 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
10 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |