Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 2 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 3 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 4 | More than ninety teachers ' jobs are to go in Gloucestershire as a result of spending cuts . |
| 5 | As a rule-of-thumb , your debts ( excluding mortgage ) should not total more than three months ' earnings before tax . |
| 6 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 7 | THE Times newspaper axed more than 20 journalists ' jobs yesterday . |
| 8 | Besides five local government employees , there are 16 lecturers , 13 union officials , 11 teachers , 10 voluntary workers , five party officials and three MPs ' researchers . |
| 9 | The sale particulars included , as well as the mill itself , a comprehensive list of machinery and equipment , outbuildings and fourteen workers ' cottages . |
| 10 | Who will pay compensation if one operators ' trains are delayed by a breakdown of a train by another operator ? |
| 11 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 12 | It was this tradition , frequently ‘ unofficial ’ , which maintained Tyne side industrial militancy in a range of important disputes in the 1960s and 1970s , including the 1966 seamen 's strike , and the 1972 and 1974 miners ' strikes . |