Example sentences of "[adv] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 2 | In other counties ( Oxfordshire was an early example ) the linking together of teachers ' centres into a county network means that high quality work produced anywhere in the county can be disseminated on requirement to other schools . |
| 3 | Accordingly total expenditure E in the period under consideration was composed entirely of consumers ' expenditure C , and total income Y in the community was identical to this expenditure . |
| 4 | constructing its own models of that knowledge independently of researchers ' analytical assumptions and preconceptions . |
| 5 | We may think here of schools ' attempts to improve buildings and equipment in order to accommodate proposed changes in the content or process of teaching . |
| 6 | Somehow they regrouped and recouped their losses , making as much as they could out of their connection with the king 's court , and rebuilding their followings by recruiting men to their retinues and councils on a less feudal basis , distributing money rents and patronage instead of knights ' fees . |
| 7 | However , just as basic systems theory suggests that every system begins and ends with the individual and , therefore , that all systems are circular , there is good reason to believe that a common policy for education can only be arrived at by looking at the array of experiences of different individuals instead of others ' perceptions of these experiences . |
| 8 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 9 | IBM Corp enabled Wall Street to start last Tuesday with a smile on its face , reporting first quarter net profit of $1.04 a share , significantly ahead of analysts ' best estimates — but the figures are not quite as good as they looked , because a change in the basis of recognition of software revenues . |
| 10 | Pre-tax profits for the 16 months to the end of December — after a change in year-end — soared by 75 per cent to £49.7 million on a comparable basis , just ahead of analysts ' estimates . |