Example sentences of "[det] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 2 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 3 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 4 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 5 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 6 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 7 | A last cup of coffee and I left ; back to H and T's in time for a few hours ' fitful sleep ; then up and away , run to the station by Aunt Antonia . |
| 8 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 9 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 10 | For example , in 1980 the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , introduced the ‘ short , sharp , shock ’ punishments for young offenders , involving a few months ' strict discipline and almost para-military training in detention centres . |
| 11 | Firstly , it is a consequence of averaging tariff levels to calculate the CET that some countries ' post-union tariff levels ( namely the CET ) will be higher than pre-union tariff levels . |
| 12 | Yet in practice it has strengthened some countries ' public sectors at the expense of their private ones . |
| 13 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 14 | James , Earl of Douglas , raided Northumberland , laying siege to Newcastle , and after a few days ' inconclusive skirmishing , the Scots army retreated into the Cheviot Hills . |
| 15 | A genuinely corinthian sailor who spurns sponsorship , she shoe-horns her racing and preparation into a few weeks ' annual holiday taken from London-based solicitors Farrers and Co . |
| 16 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 17 | Then we were off , emptied along with the cotton into the truck that transported the El Azains ' harvest , together with that of the five other families that made up this producers ' co-operative , to the local town to meet the buyer . |
| 18 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 19 | It seems very likely that such persecution is the main reason for this species ' continued lack of success in colonising the county . |
| 20 | It is in fact derived from the Afrikaans wyd meaning wide , which refers to this species ' square upper lip , contrasted with the triangular lip of the other African so-called ‘ Black ’ Rhinoceros . |
| 21 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 22 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |
| 23 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
| 24 | In some ways the difficulty was not some ministers ' demanding social solutions to social problems above individual solutions , but the underlying extent of the cultural absorption by Nonconformists discussed above . |
| 25 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 26 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 27 | Gurder gave this a few moments ' careful and terrified thought . |
| 28 | The only practical problem encountered ( apart from cases where the proffered acknowledgement form was ignored , and the seller returned his own acknowledgement form or called for a special negotiation ) was that some sellers ' administrative systems required the issue of their own acknowledgement form before an order could be logged . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 30 | This demand was extrapolated from the projected growth in such countries ' gross national product . |