Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 2 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 3 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 4 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 5 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 6 | THE ROW over the closure of Strathclyde outdoor centres worsened yesterday when an education official admitted that teachers at one centre had been given only eight days ' warning that they faced losing their posts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced . |
| 11 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 13 | G cells developed in the antrum from 18 weeks ' gestation and their distribution did not differ between the fetal and infant stomachs . |
| 14 | A further interesting finding was that one in three chairmen , one in nine employers ' representatives and one in seven employees ' representatives were also justices of the peace or held similar ‘ judicial or semi-judicial office ’ such as that of coroner . |
| 15 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 16 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 17 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 18 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 19 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 20 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 21 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 24 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 25 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As well as two years ' placement or something . |
| 28 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 29 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |
| 30 | 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 . |