Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 2 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 3 | Previously to T N T Dave was in the steel industry , and he worked in that for thirty years er , doing , and one or two other things , one of which was G K N , that 's it . |
| 4 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 5 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 6 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 7 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 8 | So , although we are seeking approval now , for the whole total , we will in fact pay half in six months ' time er as is normal procedure on , on our water bills . |
| 9 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 10 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 11 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 12 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 13 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 14 | At five o'clock we wandered back ; after all , it might get dark in fifteen days ' time . |
| 15 | You can have all or part of your savings back in cash whenever you like , subject to seven days ' notice . |
| 16 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 17 | MONCEF TRIKI : a father of four , he was held in prolonged incommunicado detention , tortured and then sentenced in August 1991 to 15 months ' imprisonment after an unfair trial . |
| 18 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 19 | Six to eight weeks ' notice is advisable . |
| 20 | Both groups of practices increased their referral rates in phase 2 of the study , the fundholders from 107.3 per 1000 patients per annum ( 95% confidence interval 106 to 109 ) to 111.4 ( 110 to 113 ) and the non-fundholders from 95.0 ( 93 to 97 ) to 112.0 ( 110 to 114 ) . |
| 21 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 22 | Helmut Voigt , a former officer of the East German state security police ( Stasi ) , was sentenced in Athens on Sept. 10 to 10 months ' imprisonment for entering the country on a false passport . |
| 23 | She advises me that the treatment involves the implant of brain cells from an aborted foetus which must be 10 to 11 weeks ' gestation . |
| 24 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 25 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 26 | Depending on the driver 's experience of mountain roads , anything from 7 to 9 hours ' driving is involved . |
| 27 | Perinatal mortality is lowest at 40 weeks ' gestation and does not increase until after 42 weeks , and then only slightly . |
| 28 | Two-year reprieve ‘ likely for 13 pits ' |
| 29 | Crawford , as a post office clerk further down the cast , was paid just 350 for five weeks ' work . |
| 30 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |