Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The winner must waive the normal six months ' grace afforded to a champion and defend it on a 50-50 purse basis when called upon .
2 It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) .
3 Fig. 3 gives the top ten markets ' percentage of total exports .
4 Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list .
5 The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion .
6 The public-sector and service industries had been unable to give the required 10 days ' notice for participation , but 10,000,000 people employed in other sectors took part .
7 In the light of this list of users , Anthony offers the following four users ' needs :
8 So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums .
9 In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education .
10 Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working .
11 Each of the two sub-units of the British contingent manning the BZ ( Buffer Zone ) has sent in a sitrep detailing the previous twenty-four hours ' activity in the BZ .
12 Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent .
13 These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles .
14 The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation .
15 The first 10 years ' capacity of 7,000 tonnes of spent fuel is taken up and full provision for the decommissioning of all THORP facilities will have been covered during this period .
16 The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk .
17 then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act .
18 All-year-round protection costs £60 , and that covers the cost of the call-out , the first two hours ' labour and up to £10 of materials on each job .
19 ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen .
20 To receive the full benefit of the policy , therefore , it must be held to maturity , particularly since the first two years ' premiums are largely taken up in charges .
21 the first two days ' golf featured a Pro/Am event , but it was the third and final day which captured the attention of the public .
22 At Chantilly , news of the first two days ' fighting had not particularly upset General Joffre .
23 The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance .
24 In some versions of this type of forecasting , the buyer is obliged to purchase the requirements detailed in the first three months of the rolling forecast , so that , in effect , as he rolls his forecast on , he places an order for the first three months ' requirements and forecasts those of the next nine months .
25 The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced .
26 On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay .
27 or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total .
28 Opposing change were the city 's communists , Gorbachev , the USSR Supreme Soviet , and many older citizens who associate the current name with the heroic 900 days ' wartime siege of Leningrad .
29 KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award .
30 In contrast to Pilkingtons , vital conceptual ingredients of the other two firms ' change initiatives were derived from organizational links with multinational corporations .
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