Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 2 | And there have been two burglaries in Bicester ; last night a Ford truck was stolen and ten and a half thousand pounds ' worth of roofing was stolen from a roofing supply store . |
| 3 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 4 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 5 | Existing gainers of the subsidy would presumably be given a further five years ' grace , and new recruits would similarly benefit . |
| 6 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 7 | Former Bangladesh President Hussain Mohammad Ershad was sentenced on Feb. 3 to a further three years ' imprisonment for illegally amassing some 19,000,000 taka ( about US$510,450 ) . |
| 8 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues already held for three years without ordination and without papal dispensation' . |
| 9 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 10 | For example , in Birmingham in 1973 a young mugger was sentenced to a draconian 20 years ' detention amid enormous publicity , and yet this sentence made no difference to the incidence of mugging offences in Birmingham or in other areas ( Baxter and Nuttall , 1975 ; Beyleveld , 1990 : 157 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 12 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 13 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 14 | Indeed , it would have had to have begun much earlier , her grandchildren 's school being a good fifteen minutes ' walk away , on the other side of West End Lane . |
| 15 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 16 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 17 | After a hectic three months ' work load , by a small but willing group of members , the BCRS Museum is up and running |
| 18 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 19 | A personalised nine man 's morris board or an original game might be produced by individuals or groups of peoples or a description with illustrations of popular tattoo motifs , like . |
| 20 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 21 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 22 | five or six other people on campus who could potentially do it with a just one night 's look an and a diagram . |
| 23 | Sir Alexander , Professor of Medicine at the King 's College , revealed that in peacetime Aberdeen exported a hundred thousand pounds ' worth of stockings a year , and in wartime a hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 24 | Not a bad three days ' work all in all . |
| 25 | Not a bad three weeks ' detecting but , more important , it was a helpful exercise in improving relationships between the archaeological societies and , hopefully , all metal detectorists . |