Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 2 | The other major offence is drunken driving , an offence bristling with technicalities which carries a maximum prison sentence of six months ' and a minimum period twelve months ' disqualification from driving . |
| 3 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 4 | Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here . |
| 5 | It is considered that an ideal land bank will vary between a minimum of three years ' and a maximum of five years ' stock . |
| 6 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 7 | Ordered , That Standing Order No. 125A ( Finance and Services Committee ) , agreed to on 18th July in the last Session of Parliament , be amended , in paragraph ( 2 ) , by leaving out the words eight Members ' and inserting the words nine Members ' . |
| 8 | However , some last-ditch defence by Karpov enabled him to reach a drawn rook and pawn endgame after 94 moves and a total of nine hours ' and 20 minutes ' play . |
| 9 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 10 | ( 1984 ) report that for those aged 65 + in 1974 reported activity limitation varied from 61.2 per cent of those with five years ' or less education to 34.2 per cent of those with a college education . |
| 11 | The event began in June , with a Scottish Regional Finals day to be held on September 14th at the Stirling University Indoor Centre , from which one Ladies ' and one Men 's team will be invited to the National Finals at the Vanderbilt Club , London , on October 5th . |
| 12 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |