Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 2 | You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice . |
| 3 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 4 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 5 | Piotr Kolodziejczyk , on the grounds that he was eligible to retire after 35 years ' service . |
| 6 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 7 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 8 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 9 | American car output rose from 4000 cars per annum in 1900 to 4 800 000 in 1929 . |
| 10 | Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for . |
| 11 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 12 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
| 13 | So again there 's some restatement , so just to clarify things we 're looking at primarily life insurance for yourself and your wife savings plan for your daughter PHI say in six months ' time and pension planning is the , the least of your , your main concerns today , would that be the case yeah I guess so . |
| 14 | These bonds will be redeemed by the government at their face value at some specified date in the future , say in twenty years ' time . |
| 15 | However , when the personal thefts were restricted to those which occurred within 15 minutes ' walk of the victim 's home , unemployment was again a statistically significant factor . |
| 16 | The general rule is that the penalty available in such circumstances is the same as that for the substantive offence incited , in this case level three , and since the legislature , thought that greater punishment than that was appropriate , specific provision is made for three months ' imprisonment , or a level 4 fine . |
| 17 | To incorporate the various categories of course , it is proposed that the phased transition should consist of three years ' batches of courses . |
| 18 | The celebrated bust , looking like two dunces ' caps applied to her chest , was encased in a puce halter-necked sweater which left all but essentials bare . |
| 19 | On May 18 1988 , Computergram Number 931 reported that IBM was seeking retroactive royalties from any company that had cloned the Personal Computer * * * the Open Software Foundation was revealed with seven sponsors * * * |
| 20 | We have started a bereavement group in our area — two afternoons a month and one evening session — which we are going to evaluate in six months ' time . |
| 21 | The two main reasons for antenatal screening are ( a ) to plan the most appropriate place and mode of delivery to minimise the hazard to neonatal life and ( b ) to offer termination of pregnancy if the diagnosis is made before 24 weeks ' gestation ( previously 28 weeks ' ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 23 | The debentures have a face value of £1.5 million , an annual interest rate of 10 per cent , mature in five years ' time and are currently selling at their face value . |
| 24 | Reports that the economy might improve in six months ' time . |
| 25 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 26 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 27 | But then the hubbub starts again , and other voices ask me what I 'll do in 20 years ' time . |
| 28 | Deductions are made from 52,000 Scots ' benefits to pay off fuel debts . |
| 29 | And somebody else with different experience from me , writing in twenty-five years ' time , will produce a very different book from mine . |
| 30 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |