Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
| 2 | On May 24 , a quadrilateral Foreign Ministers ' meeting during the Lisbon summit [ see p. 38923 ] issued a statement on measures to calm the situation . |
| 3 | Thus the immediate practical relief offered was two days of day care at a progressive old peoples ' home , where Stanley was encouraged in his piano playing to make a lively contribution . |
| 4 | The government , however , attempted to avert a threatened national teachers ' strike , by claiming that the emergency tax plan had raised enough revenues to increase their wages . |
| 5 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions ' League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The designers designed a terrific pirate galleon and a thrilling Lost Boys ' hideout . |
| 8 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 9 | Yelverton is a long lost lepers ' bell , a simple reminder that all is n't well beyond Game Boy . |
| 10 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 11 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 12 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 13 | It had been a grand few minutes ' work . |
| 14 | After a frantic few minutes ' chase the skua realises this is n't going to be cost-effective and breaks off to look for something easier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 17 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 18 | After a hectic three months ' work load , by a small but willing group of members , the BCRS Museum is up and running |
| 19 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 20 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 21 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 22 | The idea of a duty solicitor scheme to operate in a busy metropolitan magistrates ' court may seem to many to be a natural consequence of all the other paraphernalia of a socially conscious profession . |
| 23 | A Peterlee pensioner has been chosen to represent the Durham constituency at a forthcoming European pensioners ' parliament . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A successful Potential Teachers ' day took place in London on 14 November last year . |
| 26 | AS PART of the Scottish women 's squad training , a Bulgarian national ladies ' team is visiting Scotland this week . |
| 27 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |
| 28 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 29 | Some teachers , I know , were concerned by the soundtrack quality of this video , when it was shown at a recent Qualified Teachers ' day . |
| 30 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |