Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 2 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 3 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 4 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 5 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 6 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 7 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 8 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
| 9 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 10 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 11 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 12 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 13 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 14 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |