Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And will the six percent , which the Director of Education has been instructed to save across all central budgets , be enough to cover this years ' education overspend ? |
| 2 | Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . " |
| 3 | As with the merger in 1977 between the then Institute of Bankers and the Savings Banks Institute , the latest partnership will in a few years ' time look entirely natural . |
| 4 | The National Farmers Union and the Scottish Landowners ' Federation have included their concerns in submissions to the Scottish Office in response to the Government 's consultative document on the future of water and sewerage services in Scotland . |
| 5 | In 1969 , he took six months ' sabbatical leave to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris . |
| 6 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 7 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 8 | I 've seen one sergeant with fourteen years ' service chuck it and go to Australia , saying : ‘ I 've had enough of this bloody job . ’ |
| 9 | What can the United Kingdom do to help , and in what context does President Yeltsin 's pronouncement about some form of United Nations ' supervision offer good news for the future ? |
| 10 | Large wage increases were thus envisaged for doctors and teachers , currently among the lowest paid [ for May medical workers ' strike see p. 38923 ] . |
| 11 | While the recruits and their visitors enjoy the day , the staff and students of the Warrant Officers ' and Non-Commissioned Officers ' Wing continue their work . |
| 12 | The union was also left virtually bankrupt , having paid out in five weeks ' strike pay nearly two years ' worth of subscriptions . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 14 | After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile : |
| 15 | A nearly constant fraction of fetuses that are alive at 23 weeks ' gestation die each subsequent week , indicating that every fetus faces a random , but statistically predictable , risk of intrauterine death throughout pregnancy . |
| 16 | As a member of the ‘ shadow board ’ of the Football League , with whom the Professional Footballers ' Association have no quarrel , propriety demands that I do not take sides in the dispute between the Premier League and the PFA . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Twenty two patients ' lying mean arterial blood pressure and 19 patients ' standing mean arterial blood pressure fell more with nifedipine than with propranolol . |
| 19 | [ For November 1990 railworkers ' strike see p. 37867 . ] |