Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six Antiquaires à Paris dealers , returning to the Biennale after six year 's absence , brought some great eighteenth-century French furniture with them . |
| 2 | John Chope , retired this year at the age of 65 — after 52 year 's service with the RNLI . |
| 3 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 4 | 1 After 1 day 's absence , supervisors should phone or go to the person 's house to find out |
| 5 | Montgomerie looked the sharpest fielder on a miserable day when tea was delivered to the fielders after one hour 's play . |
| 6 | Conversely , the sodium depletion induced by a low dose of hydrochlorothiazide , shown by the rise in plasma uric acid , active renin , and aldosterone concentrations , did not reduce microalbuminuria after one year 's treatment . |
| 7 | Planning After one year 's operation the addition to the Chip Shop has been reviewed and passed as satisfactory . |
| 8 | Planning After one year 's operation the addition to the Chip Shop has been reviewed and passed as satisfactory . |
| 9 | Audit regulation — one year on There is a mixed response to audit regulation after one year 's experience |
| 10 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 11 | Offering extra payment for good performance , and " fines " for missed signals in a vigilance task similarly maintained performance after one night 's sleep loss at normal levels . |
| 12 | WASHED-OUT Britain was mopping up yesterday after one month 's rain fell overnight … yet we 're STILL in the middle of a drought . |
| 13 | After five year 's research , the USGs geologists reckon they know what happened in California . |
| 14 | The spring day was unseasonably warm , and after two hour 's tuition she went into the clubhouse . |
| 15 | Three of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters escorted five Blenheims of 21 Squadron to attack the ships near Lampedusa . |
| 16 | From Malta ten of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters were now able to provide good cover for the Fleet and convoy , and on one of these patrols Plt.Off . |
| 17 | Meanwhile on Malta after a quick lunch the 213 and 229 Squadron aircraft took off again to fly on to Mersa Matruh , lead by four of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters . |
| 18 | Note one of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters in the background undergoing major repair . |
| 19 | ( See Appendix IV for a summary of 261 Squadron 's achievements , the subsequent careers of its pilots , etc . ) |
| 20 | On one patrol two of 261 Squadron 's pilots collided , Hurricanes V7365 and V7548 both being lost , while Sgt. Jennings was killed and Sgt. Walker slightly injured . |
| 21 | Many of the commandos , though , died out on the river : Regimental Sergeant-Major A. Moss leading the tiny reserve of 2 Commando 's assault troops was killed swimming in the river after giving his place on a life-raft to a young soldier ; many were burnt in the pools of flaming petrol . |
| 22 | The bomber that looked as if it was always flying downhill is the subject of this account of 4 Group 's operations during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 23 | The next night it was the turn of 830 Squadron 's Swordfish to strike at the enemy . |
| 24 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 25 | Further evidence of the effectiveness of 1 Squadron 's operations was a single day in February 1956 when seven of the eight Lincolns carried out two bombing sorties , dropping 196,000lbs of bombs in the 24 hour period . |
| 26 | You know , if it was sort of five minute 's stroll down the road ? |
| 27 | Apart from establishing common criteria for the licensing of airlines and routes , they set out to guarantee an EC-wide right of cabotage ( the carriage of one country 's freight or passenger traffic by an airline from another country ) , to phase out capacity quotas at airports , and to end the preferential access arrangements accorded by some countries to their own domestic airlines . |
| 28 | Laymen who did not hold land worth forty shillings a year , and clerks who did not have a benefice worth ten pounds a year , were forbidden to keep a greyhound or other dog , on pain of one year 's imprisonment . |
| 29 | He was arraigned on three different charges and sentenced to three periods of one year 's imprisonment with hard labour to run consecutively . |
| 30 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |