Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | No seat on the board in 10 years ' time ! ’ |
| 2 | Robert Johnson , Managing Director of Johnson Brothers , will retire from the Board after 34 years ' loyal and successful service with the Group . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 4 | The court held that on the authorities it was bound to quash the sentence of three months ' imprisonment , Scott L.J . |
| 5 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 6 | The court of military justice on May 5 confirmed the sentence of three years ' hard labour first passed in absentia in July 1983 against Gen. Saadeddine al-Shazli , the army chief of staff during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 . |
| 7 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 8 | Zacks Investment Research in Chicago looked for The Economist at 27 analysts ' recommendations on Philip Morris before April 2nd . |
| 9 | The curds of two days ' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed . |
| 10 | As usual , de Gaulle 's language was loaded : " dispersion " really meant pluralism ; " facilité " meant the French people 's understandable impatience to begin enjoying the rewards of twenty years ' hard work . |
| 11 | G cells developed in the antrum from 18 weeks ' gestation and their distribution did not differ between the fetal and infant stomachs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Training has been completed for the week , and the platoon which paraded for its Pass-Off today has now left the barracks for ten days ' leave prior to posting to various battalions in England , Ulster and around Europe . |
| 14 | In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘ |
| 15 | The foreman had naturally hit the roof over the loss of thirty minutes ' production , which would pull down his departmental output and efficiency target and had roundly reprimanded the shop steward for taking such unauthorised action without first bringing the alleged safety hazard to his attention , in line with normal company standard practice . |
| 16 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 17 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 18 | Just as for a play , Nichols had the luxury of three weeks ' rehearsal on The Graduate before shooting began on location in Los Angeles , Berkeley and San Francisco . |
| 19 | Not all the Le Monde journalists support the change , which is the result of two years ' market research and several dummy editions . |
| 20 | The walk-in centre is the result of two years ' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal . |
| 21 | ‘ Fields of Vision — Dreams of View ’ — Dawson 's first exhibition dedicated to personal creative work and the result of two years ' work in collage — is showing at Smiths ' Gallery 3 in Covent Garden from 17–22 February . |
| 22 | Called PRC 565 , it is a new generation product and the result of two years ' development involving American and British scientists . |
| 23 | This report was the result of four months ' research , including material relating to Britain , Belgium , South Africa , Canada and the US , and noted that the IDA 's and the IIRS 's ‘ complacent attitude ’ towards asbestos was not shared by many eminent bodies throughout the world and that there was movement towards the phasing out of asbestos . |
| 24 | This book is the substance of his Lyell Lectures in 1983 but is the synthesis of thirty years ' work . |
| 25 | Finally , women could never receive the maximum compensation because of differential retirement ages , payments based on age , and the ceiling of twenty years ' maximum that counted towards payments . |
| 26 | With the benefit of five years ' hindsight and analysis , it is possible to understand at least some of the political consequences of that sort of robust egalitarianism . |
| 27 | What 's more , Bill has had the benefit of 15 years ' experience in roomset photography for his advertising clients . |
| 28 | The landlord 's argument will be that the rent should be paid on time , but the tenant could respond that it is a fairly recent innovation for rent to be paid in advance as opposed to in arrears and , furthermore , that the landlord has the benefit of three months ' rent in advance , despite the fact that it may not arrive on the actual quarter day . |
| 29 | The fruits of 18 months ' debate and consultation are the Work Experience and Training Guidelines that were published in September . |
| 30 | A compromise with far tighter controls over the CITES-monitored quota system is likely to be agreed before the end of the conference in two weeks ' time . |