Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to chairman Noorda , Novell has no plans to move Unix Labs headquarters from New Jersey to Utah ; rather the two companies ' respective strengths in the East and West Coast would count as advantages in the future ; even now in fact they were ‘ geographically separate , but mentally close ’ . |
| 2 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 3 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 4 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 5 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 6 | Today the three groups ' future no longer looks so bright . |
| 7 | First the opposing air forces were brought into play and then the two sides ' arsenals of short-and medium-range projectiles , conventional artillery and surface/surface missiles . |
| 8 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 9 | Yet the two females ' apparent significance also made him uneasy : he did not relish the revenge these men might mete out to him and his fellows if Sycorax were to die , or Ariel come to further harm . |
| 10 | In France they were strongly fortified till after 1453 , when the Hundred Years ' War ended and the English retired from the soil of France . |
| 11 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |