Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outdoor centre staff given eight days ' warning on jobs |
| 2 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 3 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 4 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 5 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 6 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 7 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 8 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 9 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 10 | Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites . |
| 11 | Neither is it sufficient to obtain a correct definition ( e.g. " a triangle has three sides ' ) as this does not guarantee that the pupils will not reject an obtuse angled triangle as a triangle . |
| 12 | For more than a decade , Sellafield has been Western Europe 's biggest industrial construction site , employing 5,000 contractors ' employees in addition to its own staff of around 7,000 . |
| 13 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 14 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 15 | Roy has held many management positions and has 36 years ' experience in carpets . |
| 16 | In your Japanese Grand Prix report ( 28 October ) , you say Honda had won five constructors ' championships in the last 10 years . |
| 17 | At present the Chancellor has nine days ' prior warning of the crucial retail price figures . |
| 18 | He has twenty winners ' medals — more than any other player in the club 's history . |
| 19 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 20 | Despite its own financial woes , IBM is expected to provide 60 days ' redundancy pay for each of the employees . |
| 21 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 22 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 23 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 24 | They visited two booksellers ' shops , looking for a volume of poems by the Aberdonian Latin poet , Arthur Johnson , who had been Principal of the Marischal College . |
| 25 | able to do my job , I might need thirty days ' training . |
| 26 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |
| 27 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 28 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 29 | Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years ' free unemployment cover . |
| 30 | I used to work seven days ' a week and I , I used to play football . |