Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 2 | New dialect acquisition is a more attractive explanation of the London Creole speakers ' behaviour than second language acquisition for several reasons . |
| 3 | Arriving in tltis self-proclaimed cultural centre of Australia , we had 30 minutes ' stopover while the big Australian National Railway diesels were uncoupled and a new pair attached for the journey to New South Wales . |
| 4 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 5 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 6 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |
| 7 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 8 | I encourage women to have induction at 43 weeks ' gestation because of the slightly increased risk to the baby thereafter . |
| 9 | Bergsjo et al suggested 43 weeks ' gestation as induction at this time has a lower incidence of failure . |
| 10 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 11 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 12 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 13 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 14 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
| 15 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 16 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 17 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 18 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 19 | A yearly tenancy is determinable by the landlord or the tenant at the end of the first or any subsequent year of the tenancy by six months ' notice unless the agreement between the parties provides otherwise . |
| 20 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 21 | One such parents ' group provided parent support , training , day and evening activities , holidays , camps , and overnight stays in its own house ; another ran a training house , provided overnight and weekend stays , and — starting in 1989 — ran a registered ( staffed ) home and an unstaffed home . |
| 22 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 23 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 24 | But , as we have seen , regarding authentic Producers ' Co-operation as ‘ the rival doctrine ’ the Consumers ' Movement did little then to help , and so contributed to the inertia against which the industrial co-operative form has had to contend . |
| 25 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 26 | It is rather suspicious that the label ‘ illogical ’ has been used to disparage other subordinate groups ' language as well as women 's . |
| 27 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 28 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 29 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 30 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |