Example sentences of "local [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 2 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
| 3 | ‘ Regionalism ’ also meant the presence of local notables on the companies ' boards , sometimes bringing finance with them , as in the case of Lord Derby , chairman of TV , and sometimes prestige , contacts and local influence . |
| 4 | The IDA responded to the charges by pointing out that it had brought Dr McDonald in to allay local fears after a residents ' spokesperson had said that an independent medical opinion could satisfy the residents and noted that this internationally renowned expert had pronounced the factory to be entirely safe . |
| 5 | Of local delegates to the Bolsheviks ' Prague Conference of 1912 almost two-thirds were workers . |