Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bergsjo et al suggested 43 weeks ' gestation as induction at this time has a lower incidence of failure . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is rather suspicious that the label ‘ illogical ’ has been used to disparage other subordinate groups ' language as well as women 's . |
| 8 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 9 | In this respect , it is useful to pay attention to what we might now term the human rights ' issue as one examines the handling of public — private morality in the Irish constitution . |
| 10 | The ‘ community ’ or comprehensive-type schools which are beginning to replace vocational and local church schools have a more religious flavour , as they may include the interests of a former convent , which the new school is in part replacing , a former vocational school , and possibly a former diocesan boys ' school as well . |
| 11 | But Berlin has outlived its shameful war And last week saw the vile Ceausescus ' fall As long as Gorbachev still gets his way , The Stalinists at last have had their day . |
| 12 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 13 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 14 | The Admiral who had been appointed as the boss of Playboy UK got a golden handshake of nearly £12 million for four months ' tenure as the firm was taken over . |
| 15 | This would give him eighteen months ' salary as compensation for loss of office , and his pension was not to begin until the eighteen month period had elapsed . |
| 16 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |
| 17 | Few commando guerrillas , therefore , can claim to have had as great an influence over their main forces ' campaign as these Independent Companies , for in the Allied advances of 1943 many garrisons could be by-passed and the Japanese on Timor did not quit the island until a month after the armistice in 1945 . |
| 18 | But , with only 48 seconds separating the top nine riders overall after more than 1,000 miles ' racing as they headed out through the Birkenhead tunnel , Lillywhite and his team-mates had to be on their guard in today 's 85-mile penultimate stage to Salford Quays . |