Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well I 'm in the scheme , the company pension scheme and I think they give er I think it 's six months ' full pay and six months ' half pay . |
| 2 | Doctors who performed illegal abortions would be subject to up to 10 years ' hard labour and fines not exceeding $100,000 . |
| 3 | Identified by police witnesses as the ‘ Somers Town Boys ’ , the two youths charged with assault received six weeks ' hard labour and a month 's hard labour . |
| 4 | A further important European issue concerns the adoption by the European Council of a Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of at least three years ' professional education and training . |
| 5 | But with the aid of two eight-inch metal rods fixed either side of my spine , and 18 hours ' intensive exercise and physical therapy a week , I made progress . |
| 6 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 7 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 8 | The defendants , a mail order firm , issued an advertisement offering their louvre doors on 14 days ' free approval and indicating the price and the carriage charge . |
| 9 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 10 | For successful students who possess at least two years ' relevant experience and have been members of the Institute for at least two years , the Banking Certificate leads to a qualification in its own right — the Cert . |
| 11 | The period of the two painters ' great intimacy and of their unique collaboration was about to begin . |
| 12 | Each winner also receives two nights ' full-board accommodation and travelling expenses from all areas of the British Isles . |
| 13 | After 20 years ' waiting Esau and Jacob are born . |