Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Donna made herself comfortable and prepared to sleep , wondering , despite the fact that she was tired , whether or not the thoughts tumbling through her mind would be still long enough to allow her two or three precious hours ' rest . |
2 | So we have to keep ahead of that , because we 're planning the benefits for you , twenty or twenty five years ' time . |
3 | The aid formula of the House bill provided the unemployed with six , 13 or 20 additional weeks ' benefit depending on their state of residence . |
4 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
5 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
6 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
7 | The bad news is that there were two hundred and thirteen thousand pounds ' worth of non- recurring income items to reach that and this means that the Association 's routine activities ran at a deficit of twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts . |
8 | But the Phoenix King had lent Tyrion the services of a unit of White Lions and these bold warriors ' knowledge of their homeland was to prove invaluable . |
9 | The London and Provincial Antique Dealers ' Association ( LAPADA ) will be holding its next fair at the Royal College of Art from 13 October to l8 October . |
10 | Returning to London to work for Grand Metropolitan , he became managing director of Le Coq D'or , was a partner at Le Boulestin and Grand Metropolitan Hotels ' group food and beverage director . |
11 | While we did observe an active and enthusiastic first-year readers ' club in action , and a considerable number of children using the library during lunch hours , there were indications of a conservative element at work . |
12 | The incident took place when Charlie and his long time friend and fellow Celtic Boys ' Club colleague Willie McStay were on holiday together in Ibiza . |
13 | Meanwhile , the semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers ' share of the much smaller total of numbers in full-time work fell by over 3 percentage points : from 26.7 to 23.3 per cent . |
14 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
15 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |