Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 2 | ( 13 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg , wife of the Secretary of Labour , paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 3 | ( 37 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg … paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 4 | Bassist Jennifer — 12 hours ' sleep in three days , we reckon — adding : ‘ I 'm having a really bad night tonight and I do n't know what it is , but the next person who smacks the mic or stands on our gear … |
| 5 | In 12 of the 16 cases , fresh tissue specimens were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen after 30 minutes ' incubation in gum sucrose for immunohistological studies . |
| 6 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 7 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 8 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 9 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 10 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 11 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 12 | Sentence : 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 13 | It is now clearly established that a juvenile who pleads guilty to an offence or series of offences for which the maximum term of custody is a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution should normally receive an appropriate discount to reflect his plea , subject to the general principles governing the award of a discount . |
| 14 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 15 | The appellant had been sentenced to a term of detention which took effect as a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution , and the Court 's powers were limited to declaring that that was the effect of the sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 16 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 17 | Sentence : 12 months ' imprisonment in each case . |
| 18 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | On Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday August 30 and 31 the vintage transport weekend — modelled on the highly popular Enthusiasts ' Weekend in April this year . |
| 20 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 21 | This book is dedicated to his 30 years ' research in the area , and he has contributed an interesting first chapter on his reminiscences . |
| 22 | I was merely a naval officer , with some years ' experience in intelligence , and two languages . |
| 23 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 24 | Ali Haxhiu , a 45-year-old Albanian refugee in the village of Sazli , was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment in May 1991 after making a ‘ V ’ for victory sign in the presence of two policemen in a café . |
| 25 | A few years ' experience in commerce , particularly in marketing will help even more . |
| 26 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 27 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 28 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 29 | Staff and postgraduates participate in an annual Scottish universities ' conference in ecclesiastical history . |
| 30 | One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 . |