Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) ended a summit meeting in Rome on Nov. 8 with an invitation to eastern European countries for closer co-operation , starting with a foreign ministers ' meeting in December . |
| 3 | A formal decision was likely to be taken at a foreign ministers ' meeting in June . |
| 4 | One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 . |
| 5 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 6 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 7 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 8 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 9 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 10 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 11 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 12 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 13 | A few years ' experience in commerce , particularly in marketing will help even more . |
| 14 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 15 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 16 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 17 | Further inland , and only just visible from the southern window was the Old Rectory , set like a Victorian dolls ' house in its large , overgrown garden which , at this distance , looked as neatly green and formal as a municipal park . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A national teachers ' seminar in 1975 produced an evaluation of the education reforms introduced ten years previously under President Kennedy 's Alliance for Progress . |
| 20 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 21 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 22 | Whilst missioner in Cambridgeshire — after a five years ' spell in Oxford he began to — read seriously and painstakingly — and , though untutored and without the benefit of lectures , he gained a degree in Classics at Cambridge University . |
| 23 | There is a small officers ' annex in the village itself for me to be impotent at , and it is on this hygienic apartment that we increasingly depend . |
| 24 | Mrs Stringer , an active member of Teesside Pensioners Association , is attending a two-day Pensioners ' Parliament in Brussels , paid for by the European Parliament 's Socialist group of MPs . |
| 25 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 26 | In addition to the established and highly successful Master 's Degree Course in Highway Engineering for Developing Countries , the School of Civil Engineering is now setting up a parallel Masters ' Course in Traffic Engineering for Developing Countries . |
| 27 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 28 | A fifteen-day teachers ' strike in September 1989 , supported by other workers , reflected some of these economic and professional concerns , though the Costa Rican teachers ' union is not considered militant . |
| 29 | Smith was a leading figure in the local and national movement to promote technical education , beginning with the provision of a new Mechanics ' Institute in Keighley in 1870 — he was secretary of the building committee — and continuing , after a formative visit to France , Germany , and Switzerland in 1872 , with the setting up of an associated ‘ trade school ’ , providing technical and art classes . |
| 30 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |