Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 3 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 4 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 11 | If only five per cent of car journeys were made by bus or train instead it would save over a quarter of a million tonnes ' worth of pollutant each year . |
| 12 | In the El Niño event of 1982–83 , 200 000 square km of Argentina was flooded and Peru lost a million dollars ' worth of potatoes , while Indonesia , Australia , and southern Africa experienced devastating drought . |
| 13 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 14 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |