Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Grundig promised to launch an ‘ autoreverse ’ machine , to give eight hours ' continuous recording on a V2000 cassette , but it never appeared . |
| 2 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 3 | The Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) cited Iraqi " indignation " at " some European states ' subservient policy of subordination to the aggressive and arrogant US policy " . |
| 4 | She was sentenced to 120 hours ' unpaid community work . |
| 5 | He owned the plane and had 300 hours ' flying experience . |
| 6 | The extensive , systematic and ‘ unalterable ’ inequalities between different groups ' economic muscle and political influence are exposed . |
| 7 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 8 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 9 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 10 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 11 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 12 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 13 | A last cup of coffee and I left ; back to H and T's in time for a few hours ' fitful sleep ; then up and away , run to the station by Aunt Antonia . |
| 14 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 15 | The Irish-American hip-hop outfit , currently riding high in the US charts , signed to XL Recordings ' new Ruffness label last month . |
| 16 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 17 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 18 | For example , in 1980 the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , introduced the ‘ short , sharp , shock ’ punishments for young offenders , involving a few months ' strict discipline and almost para-military training in detention centres . |
| 19 | It opened to 12 months ' solid booking , having taken record advance bookings of$9.6 million in ticket sales . |
| 20 | Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate . |
| 21 | Here as elsewhere , Darwin 's theory showed its value as a working hypothesis ; and by the 1870s Flower could argue that all the hoofed animals ' general line of descent and relationships could be worked out using fossil discoveries . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State rather coyly referred to the increase in Scottish Homes ' total funding , but not to the overall position . |
| 23 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 24 | Firstly , it is a consequence of averaging tariff levels to calculate the CET that some countries ' post-union tariff levels ( namely the CET ) will be higher than pre-union tariff levels . |
| 25 | This is the first time a Black Ark has ever been sunk and marks the beginning of the High Elves ' naval ascendancy over their dark kindred . |
| 26 | e ) are the only benefits payable under the Scheme in the case of an officer who leaves the Service with less than 2 years ' reckonable service . |
| 27 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 28 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 29 | James , Earl of Douglas , raided Northumberland , laying siege to Newcastle , and after a few days ' inconclusive skirmishing , the Scots army retreated into the Cheviot Hills . |
| 30 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |