Example sentences of "six [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The greater proportion ( 33 per cent ) of people said they could function on a minimum of six hours ' sleep , though many claimed they could get by on five hours ( 23 per cent ) and four hours ( 20 per cent ) . |
2 | If there is no release , then after six hours ' detention , in steps the ‘ review officer ’ , at least of inspector rank , again unconnected with the investigation , who now determines whether there is sufficient evidence to charge . |
3 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
4 | The game has been adjourned after six hours ' play with Short sealing the 61st move in an envelope . |
5 | After 60 moves and six hours ' play , Short has rook , bishop and two pawns against Karpov 's bishop , knight and two pawns . |
6 | By 1988 , people were often given only six hours ' notice — sometimes less — of the imminence of their removal to new homes and the destruction of their old ones . |
7 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
8 | In less than six hours ' time — and there it would still be night — he would be attempting to scale the steel wall , trying not to get crushed against it . |
9 | In the middle of the afternoon , at the end of the six hours ' questioning , Mrs B was driven back through the dark , dreary day , and dumped outside her garage door . |
10 | In all four of the six Bondholders ' Committee representatives supported the proposal . |
11 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , during the recent debate on the Asylum Bill , our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary pointed out that about 30,000 people are registered as asylum seekers , without their families , and that they are allowed six months ' benefit immediately upon registering as asylum seekers ? |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The 1931 treaty is automatically prolonged from year to year and each party has the right to terminate it after six months ' notification . |
14 | farms with more than 20 head of cattle must have access to stores for slurry and effluent with at least six months ' capacity . |
15 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | After six months ' trial the commissioners appointed Mitchell general inspector and superintendent of the Highland roads and bridges , a post he held for almost forty years . |
18 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
19 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
20 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
21 | At present re-entry programmes range from three evenings to six months ' day release plus supervised practice , and so it is virtually impossible to list every variation on the theme here . |
22 | In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education . |
23 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |
24 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
25 | Provisions for parental leave range from 18 months ' low flat rate pay in Germany , or six months ' leave at 30 per cent of earnings in Italy , to three months ' unpaid leave in Greece . |
26 | It is assumed that , having married an Englishwoman , he returned to France in December 1788 at the end of his six months ' leave . |
27 | On the advice of M Broussonet MD FRS , perpetual secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture in Paris , he took the momentous step of obtaining six months ' leave of absence to visit England . |
28 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
29 | At the time she was on six months ' leave from WWF International 's Swiss office , where she heads the conservation news service and edits WWF News . |
30 | Thus ‘ unlawful act ’ manslaughter , which can be committed by virtue of a mere assault or battery , is an example of constructive liability ( see Chapter 5.2 ( a ) and ( b ) ) ; it is only luck which makes the difference between the summary offence of common assault ( maximum , six months ' imprisonment ) and the grave offence of manslaughter ( maximum , life imprisonment ) . |