Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ['s] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 2 | I 'm quite happy to do that take and and put on a six month 's trial if we do n't salaries through |
| 3 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 4 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 5 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 6 | Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced . |
| 7 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 8 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 9 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 10 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 11 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 12 | ‘ Then he 'll need to take another nine month 's sabbatical when he hears my reply . ’ |
| 13 | But Grand Met could ask her to leave with just one month 's notice if they find a taker for the 20-year lease . |
| 14 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 15 | I have completed one year 's retirement although I did n't really retire ! |
| 16 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 17 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 18 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 19 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 20 | Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better . |
| 21 | But , with only 48 seconds separating the top nine riders overall after more than 1,000 miles ' racing as they headed out through the Birkenhead tunnel , Lillywhite and his team-mates had to be on their guard in today 's 85-mile penultimate stage to Salford Quays . |