Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 2 | A row about 100 cm ( 3 ft ) long is ample for one family 's needs for most herbs . |
| 3 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 4 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 5 | At five o'clock we wandered back ; after all , it might get dark in fifteen days ' time . |
| 6 | To which Theseus replies : This state is not Subject to one man 's will , but is a free city . |
| 7 | You can have all or part of your savings back in cash whenever you like , subject to seven days ' notice . |
| 8 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 9 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 10 | Orders were sent out to rearm them , to neutralise the demolition mines , and infantry garrisons were despatched complete with fourteen days ' rations and solemn instructions never to capitulate . |
| 11 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 12 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 13 | They were n't going to become involved in one client 's intent to murder another . |
| 14 | Prior to 1916 Paul-Yves 's life was anchored by the rock-like presence of a reassuring father figure , dominant , capable , sure . |
| 15 | Both have contracts with the Company terminable at 3 years ' notice . |
| 16 | From one month and four month rates we can derive the three month interest rate which , if prevailing in one month 's time , would lead to the same return being achieved from investing either in a combination of a one month deposit followed by a three month deposit , or in a four month deposit from the outset . |
| 17 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 18 | Robert Buckland , an economist at brokers NatWest Markets , summed up the City 's view : ‘ We 're sceptical about one month 's figures for a start . |
| 19 | But in terms of comparison and competition the professionals who are responsible for one school 's management may now have to justify to governors and to parents a consumption of time which some people might think would be better spent on raising pupils ' performance in a limited field and in ways which are visible , competitive and market-orientated . |
| 20 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 21 | Experts say the pollution in North Bohemia is due to 40 years ' emphasis on heavy industry under communist rule . |
| 22 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |
| 23 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
| 24 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 25 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION , Tooting Broadway 's finest , who issue their ‘ When In Heaven ’ / ‘ Glittery Dust ’ 45 on One Little Indian in two weeks ' time , play |
| 26 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |
| 27 | A nearly constant fraction of fetuses that are alive at 23 weeks ' gestation die each subsequent week , indicating that every fetus faces a random , but statistically predictable , risk of intrauterine death throughout pregnancy . |
| 28 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
| 29 | if they just bring one , I shall say well I 've got choice then to say well is this this week 's or last week 's , now I do n't want to give them that opportunity to say well she 's worrying about one week 's wages , I mean Jan could love that and that 's given him chance to bring er , whereas if it pops through the door , or he comes |
| 30 | A further promise , however , of an extra bonus payment in 1993 equivalent to one month 's pay , was reportedly rejected in late September in the National Assembly , where the government had no majority . ) |