Example sentences of "three [conj] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |
| 2 | So I 'll ask you a question in about er , three or four minutes ' time , which could result in you 're going out next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 3 | She had been teaching New Zealand , erm , not quite such a long training so she 's had three or four years ' experience . |
| 4 | The courses are of three or four years ' duration . |
| 5 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 6 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 7 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 8 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 9 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 10 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 11 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
| 12 | It is not possible to forecast in more than very general terms what the job opportunities will be in three or four years ' time . |
| 13 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |
| 14 | Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better . |
| 15 | For himself , he would take Sir Alexander Ramsay with him , since he knew the Borderland intimately , and hoped to rejoin the main army in three or four days ' time , God willing with Balliol either prisoner or dead . |
| 16 | Full-time provision includes courses of one to three and four years ' duration , some of which may be studied as separate ‘ end-on ’ courses and many of which provide opportunities for transfer of suitable students to degree courses . |
| 17 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |