Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 2 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 3 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 4 | The prospect of a rabid Irish nationalist invasion of Northern Ireland from the Republic in order to swamp the poll is unreal in more than one sense and it is very doubtful if the three months ' residence requirement is necessary . |
| 5 | As soon as the 15 seconds ' rest has elapsed , you must start the next exercise . |