Example sentences of "[verb] two [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 2 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 3 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 4 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 5 | But Murray was determined , and eager to be off eastwards without delay , for Balliol had already had two days ' lead . |
| 6 | The great value weekend includes two nights ' accommodation with private bathroom , and one round of golf . |
| 7 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
| 8 | It 's two years since we 've done it so we 've got two years ’ worth of playing and they 've got two years ' worth of applause . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ he mumbled unconvincingly , ‘ I 've only got two weeks ' vacation . |
| 10 | Knife-carriers could face two years ' jail |
| 11 | The Indian team observed two minutes ' silence before the Perth Test . |
| 12 | Axeen rewrote the material that she used in her course ‘ Teaching the use of the library to undergraduates ’ in fourteen units of instruction , each requiring two hours ' use of the terminal . |
| 13 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 14 | to give two hours ' warning before a visit to their capital , so that people could stay indoors |
| 15 | Two young Harvard dealers who were sacked still owed two months ' rent . |
| 16 | Both the French and Scottish groups undertook two weeks ' work experience and a week of language and social activity abroad . |
| 17 | The French policy is to keep two years ' supply of metals ; the government has admitted to hoarding copper , lead , tungsten and chromium , although it has kept to itself exactly what else the stockpile contains . |
| 18 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 19 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 20 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 21 | Matty attempts to clear her desk by doing two weeks ' work in three days . |
| 22 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 23 | I hid the inch of yellow knitting , which represented two hours ' work , under my chair , tipped the lampshade to a more discreet angle , and called , " Come in . " |
| 24 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 25 | AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester . |
| 26 | And essentially you can get two years ' worth of records in , in a storage binder . |
| 27 | Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network . |
| 28 | Fire division walls in a single storey E1 building between compartments of maximum size ( 14,000m2 ) are required to have two hours ' fire resistance . |
| 29 | The two-month period between finishing his Special-to-Theatre EOD course at the School of Ammunition and arriving in the Province suddenly became two days ' notice , due to a shortfall in EOD Operators . |
| 30 | The first time I got charged with chequebooks and cards I got two years ' probation . |