Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |
| 2 | The routine for a haulier offering 30 days ' credit might look like this : |
| 3 | The landlord must be given an order for possession after the expiry of the term , provided he has given the requisite two months ' notice requiring possession , ideally from the landlord 's point of view expiring when the tenancy terminates . |
| 4 | Mr O'Connor 's management decided it would be in the best interest of all concerned for the event to be postponed giving the theatre management seven days ' notice , enabling ticket holders to be contacted . |
| 5 | Each enemy plane shot down brought the victor three days ' leave , and a palm-leaf to add to his ribbons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This lending ceiling was reinforced by a further statement by the Bank in November 1968 which gave the banks four months ' notice to reduce their lending to 98 per cent of the mid November 1967 level . |
| 8 | [ For November 1990 railworkers ' strike see p. 37867 . ] |
| 9 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
| 10 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 11 | Four years later , Derrick faced National Service and Lynne two years ' separation . |
| 12 | COUNCILLORS yesterday approved an application for a £2 million patients ' hotel to be built at Glasgow Western Infirmary . |
| 13 | United Satellites — a consortium of British Telecom , British Aerospace and GEC — has guaranteed the BBC seven years ' service , at £12.2 million per channel per year , from satellites launched on the European Ariane rocket . |
| 14 | ‘ All the information he had ’ was enough to save the Russians ten years ' research . |
| 15 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 16 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
| 17 | After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile : |
| 18 | There is a minimum 14 days ' cancellation period from receipt of the policy document . |
| 19 | Following India 's announcement in April 1990 of a campaign protesting at Fiji 's discrimination against Indians in the proposed new constitution , the Fiji government on May 24 gave the Indian high commission 24 hours ' notice to close its mission because of alleged internal and external " interference " . |
| 20 | The new rules , which integrate training requirements for both trainees and newly qualifieds doing the two-year work experience requirement for a practising certificate , also introduce a minimum 20 weeks ' training in accounting . |
| 21 | Kenneth Baker , once more , who refused to resign after two armed IRA prisoners escaped from Brixton prison , even though the police had given the prison authorities five months ' warning . |
| 22 | A Kazakh government commission was sent to Leninsk , and gave all conscripts 10 days ' leave and extra food and cigarettes . |
| 23 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 25 | Leaving behind wounded legend Lester Piggott , the British retreated with heads hung low after the 7–0 hammering by the Americans at the $10 million Breeders ' Cup world championships . |
| 26 | The Public Order ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1981 makes it necessary for organisers to give the police 5 days ' notice of a march for it to be considered legal . |
| 27 | Disentangling Phase 3 heads ' analysis of their use of PNP staff from their collective sense of outrage at the phasing policy is difficult . |
| 28 | Frederica Potter , Radio 3 Critics ' Forum . |
| 29 | To go with the new Class 90s an order was placed for twenty-nine Driving Van Trailers ( DVTs ) to replace the old Mk 1 guards ' van . |
| 30 | For their parting present , before they went off into their futures , they gave Apricot six months ' supply of contraceptive pills . |