Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 2 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 3 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 9 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 10 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 15 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 16 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |