Example sentences of "25 [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
| 2 | The Governors of that institution have , owing to the favourable report of Rev. A. E. Shaw , the Headmaster , awarded him a further exhibition of 25 shillings per annum for books . |
| 3 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | The index future is complemented by traded CAC 40 Index options on the Paris Bourse which also trades stock options on over 25 companies ' shares . |
| 5 | Stakis Hotels recently presented Stakis Highland Lodges ' Peter McIntosh with a £1,000 travel voucher and a gold and diamond pin in recognition of his 25 years ' service . |
| 6 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 7 | Mintel has extrapolated the figures , assuming the same level of inflation , and reckons the simplest funeral could cost a bereaved family £6,230 in 25 years ' time . |
| 8 | It was a celebration not just of 25 years ' wedded bliss , but also the modern Labour Party . |
| 9 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 10 | P. H. If you went at 25 years ' service , you got half pension . |
| 11 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 12 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
| 13 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking , camping and backpacking at home and abroad |
| 14 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home and abroad . |
| 15 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home |
| 16 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 17 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years ' experience of walking and backpacking at home and abroad |
| 18 | The former training division is an established one of some 25 years ' standing . |
| 19 | Try to stick to the subject of the row rather than bringing up 25 years ' worth of misdemeanours . |
| 20 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 21 | Joe has nearly 25 years ' experience in the oil industry . |
| 22 | Bob , who is director of the Indonesian joint venture , brought more than 25 years ' experience to his session on the development of LNG in Indonesia , while Paul , manager of strategic planning , and John , finance manager for the Indonesian Region , gave comprehensive presentations of the key financial issues . |
| 23 | At mid-day on Tuesday 15 October last year a small group of friends met in Michael Parry 's office to celebrate the Secretary 's 25 years ' service to the University . |
| 24 | BARLASTON potting department 's John Porter marks 25 years ' service with a long service award from production director Roy Naylor . |
| 25 | IT was all smiles as director of human resources George Stonier said thank you to his secretary Val Inskip for clocking up 25 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group . |
| 26 | COALPORT production director Mike Harley presents a long service award to Hazel Horne , production counter , after 25 years ' service . |
| 27 | HANDSHAKES of congratulations for Harold Clewlow , who celebrated 25 years ' service as a biscuit placer at Coalport Minerva with a long service award from production director Mike Harley . |
| 28 | On the left , new and special projects programming executive Brian George receives his award for 25 years ' service from logistics director Mike Cozens . |
| 29 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 30 | , left , being congratulated on 25 years ' service by . |