Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 2 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 3 | At five o'clock we wandered back ; after all , it might get dark in fifteen days ' time . |
| 4 | You can have all or part of your savings back in cash whenever you like , subject to seven days ' notice . |
| 5 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 6 | Two-year reprieve ‘ likely for 13 pits ' |
| 7 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 8 | Orders were sent out to rearm them , to neutralise the demolition mines , and infantry garrisons were despatched complete with fourteen days ' rations and solemn instructions never to capitulate . |
| 9 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 10 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 11 | Not only is this statement admissible in tribunal proceedings , but unreasonable refusal to provide such a statement renders the employer , on the application of the employee to a tribunal , liable to a penalty payable to the employee of a sum equal to two weeks ' gross pay . |
| 12 | Both have contracts with the Company terminable at 3 years ' notice . |
| 13 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 14 | Experts say the pollution in North Bohemia is due to 40 years ' emphasis on heavy industry under communist rule . |
| 15 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |
| 16 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
| 17 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 18 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION , Tooting Broadway 's finest , who issue their ‘ When In Heaven ’ / ‘ Glittery Dust ’ 45 on One Little Indian in two weeks ' time , play |
| 19 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |
| 20 | A nearly constant fraction of fetuses that are alive at 23 weeks ' gestation die each subsequent week , indicating that every fetus faces a random , but statistically predictable , risk of intrauterine death throughout pregnancy . |
| 21 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
| 22 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 23 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |
| 24 | Letting Service — aimed at Landlords who wish to manage the properties themselves Equivalent to 4 weeks ' rent |
| 25 | At the end of the year , the surplus added to the general reserve was £325,000 , meaning that our liquid reserves total just over £2m — equivalent to three months ' operating costs . |
| 26 | This is in accordance with the Council 's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months ' core activity expenditure . |
| 27 | This is in accordance with the Council 's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months ' core activity expenditure . |
| 28 | Then the god spoke to a woman whose baby was ill , and afterwards to a couple who were childless after three years ' marriage . |
| 29 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
| 30 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |