Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to university for five years ' study . |
| 2 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 3 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 4 | The cost of employing the consultant — up to £1000 for five days ' work — is split between the bank and the company . |
| 5 | DEBBIE ADAMS had to let her East End terrace house in London in a hurry when her husband was re-located to Ireland with two months ' notice . |
| 6 | A central problem remains the small role assigned to administrators in liberal corporatists ' accounts ( Nordlinger , 1981 , pp. 171 — 2 ; Diamant 1981 , p. 120 ) . |
| 7 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 8 | The EC wants all women to have the right to return to work after 14 weeks ' paid leave , but it looks as though British women will receive sick pay , rather than full pay . |
| 9 | A strike by a majority of Bulgaria 's 21,000 miners , some of them fasting underground , appeared to have been halted when , on Aug. 22 , the men 's representatives agreed to negotiations after nine days ' action . |
| 10 | In January 1919 , the superintendent-nurse , Miss Price , returned to duty after two months ' sick leave ( which had started on Armistice Day ) . |
| 11 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 12 | Some 97,000 families will be affected by cuts of up to 40% in civil servants ' pay , part of a World Bank/IMF plan to reduce government spending . |
| 13 | But to realise the blossoming of those parties is Labour 's most important challenge , the key to power in four years ' time . |
| 14 | The speech was well received by the delegates and a motion was carried unanimously to send a fact-finding team to Zimbala in six months ' time to monitor the situation with a view to readmitting the country to the United Nations . |
| 15 | The new flexi-age retirement provision is unlikely to help you if you move to a new job , since it only applies to employees of 20 years ' standing . |
| 16 | Protection against unfair dismissal is available only to employees with two years ' continuous service ; anyone dismissed before then has no recourse to an industrial tribunal — |