Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | The accused , an accountant , forged 10 cheques on two companies ' bank accounts . |
2 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
3 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
4 | At present re-entry programmes range from three evenings to six months ' day release plus supervised practice , and so it is virtually impossible to list every variation on the theme here . |
5 | Following a reception for 80 guests at All Saints ' Hall , Alton the couple left for their honeymoon in Margate . |
6 | Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time . |
7 | It cites 33 examples of un-named organisations ' policies by industry group and size of company . |
8 | The subsequent trial was a travesty , and , as a deterrent , an inexperienced judge sentenced Loveless and his five associates to seven years ' transportation . |
9 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
10 | All told , there are 13 players with previous Lions ' experience . |
11 | Two pairs of sharpened watchmakers ' forceps are necessary for this dissection . |
12 | The Welsh ace bagged four goals in this Cup-Winners ' Cup romp to eclipse Sixties ' idol Roger Hunt . |
13 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
14 | Some examples of the use to which the SERRL database has been put are : the examination of the accessibility of small and medium-sized towns to the motorway and trunk road network in promoting population growth , the analysis of the hinterlands of each of the 900 stations on British Railways ' South Eastern Region , and updating the urban/rural boundary lines using remotely-sensed data . |
15 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
16 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
17 | On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition . |
18 | I 'd come 7,000 miles at three days ' notice — and for what ? ’ |
19 | In the final , expecting a tougher time against Norfolk , they ran out 7–0 winners with Old Loughts ' Ian Barker and Krishnan both notching hat-tricks and Chelmsford 's Phil Benton adding the other . |
20 | The top seven , all Tories apart from Mr Jones , have the most chance of success , since business managers have set aside seven Fridays for private members ' bills . |