Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good .
3 My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then .
4 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 .
5 G cells developed in the antrum from 18 weeks ' gestation and their distribution did not differ between the fetal and infant stomachs .
6 Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop
10 Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright .
11 We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath .
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