Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | After forty four years ' service with the company David Smith , Shift Supervisor , retired on 19th February . |
| 2 | This photograph shows Edison after three continuous days ' and nights ' work on the machine . |
| 3 | At her farewell presentation , Jean Henry ( centre ) holds a bouquet of flowers given to her on retirement in February after twenty four years ' service . |
| 4 | Margaret Gibson , Maintenance Cleaner , retired at the end of April after twenty three years ' with the company . |
| 5 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 6 | After two successful years ' trading , Nomad Books of Fulham in central London has moved into larger premises . |
| 7 | Arthur Hawthorn ( right ) , Threading Supervisor in the Crabtree weaving department has retired after thirty five years ' service with the company . |
| 8 | Archie Watson retired in early July after thirty three years ' as a weaver . |
| 9 | Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do . |
| 10 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 11 | The task " work out how many shaded squares will go round a line of 50 unshaded squares ' , implicitly suggested the use of a generalization strategy for its completion . |
| 12 | No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general . |
| 13 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 14 | Other objects on show will include a late sixteenth-century marriage casket inlaid with numerous panels of staghorn depicting a marriage celebration and other classical motifs , including eight copper-gilt engravers ' plates , each engraved with a Virtue . |
| 15 | With twenty six years ' experience in industry , Jim McDaid was appointed to the position of Chief Industrial Engineer for Stoddard Carpets Ltd . |
| 16 | Here she was , buck-naked , in her bathroom with an equally undressed man , with twenty thousand dollars ' worth of jewellery scattered on the floor between them . |
| 17 | I collected the mats from Relum Ltd of Saxmundham , Suffolk , on Friday the 15th along with 400 pre-packed campers ' meals made available by Relum free of charge . |
| 18 | A multichannel spectrum analyser , with the capability of scanning 10,000,000 frequencies simultaneously in the microwave portion of the spectrum , would work in tandem with some of the world 's largest radio telescopes in a targeted survey of solar type stars within 75 light years ' distance . |
| 19 | So we have to make sure the money you pay to us , actually is going to grow so it gives you a very good return on that money in twenty five years ' time . |
| 20 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 21 | The same will be true of readers in two hundred years ' time , and before and after . |
| 22 | In 1988 British publishers ' sales were reported as 1,700 million pounds , of which 1,100 million were to individual purchasers , 240 million to ‘ public institutions ’ ( schools , higher education and public libraries ) , and a further 360 million estimated to be to ‘ private institutions ’ ( which include most commercial libraries ) . |
| 23 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 24 | They entitle you to two free weekends ' accommodation for two in over 180 superb British hotels , at a wide range of holiday destinations , from picturesque Devon to the rugged Scottish Highlands . |
| 25 | Suddenly my eyes opened wide : I saw that my faded garment was being hung in the closet next to four well-tailored officers ' overcoats , gold stars shining on pale blue epaulets , the insignia of the AVO , the state security police . |
| 26 | for twenty five minutes ' journey to Waterloo . |
| 27 | I 've actually put in for twenty thousand pounds ' worth of grants at this point , however , let's see whether I 'm fortunate to achieve that . |
| 28 | plus twenty eight pounds ' worth |
| 29 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 30 | The first and most obvious change is to increase the duration of each exercise , but keeping the rest periods constant , that is 30 seconds ' exercise followed by 1 5 seconds ' rest . |