Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 2 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 3 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 4 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 5 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |