Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 2 | The Welsh ace bagged four goals in this Cup-Winners ' Cup romp to eclipse Sixties ' idol Roger Hunt . |
| 3 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 4 | A central problem remains the small role assigned to administrators in liberal corporatists ' accounts ( Nordlinger , 1981 , pp. 171 — 2 ; Diamant 1981 , p. 120 ) . |
| 5 | And of course , we spend half our lives in each others ' houses , eating . |
| 6 | The Chiefs of Staff and most senior officers on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific knew each other , having served together on NATO , CENTO , and SEATO staffs and in exchange appointments in each others ' armed forces . |
| 7 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
| 8 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
| 9 | CANCER — THIS could be one of the most important years in many Cancerians ' lives . |
| 10 | Later British Rail explained that the programme to fit radio telephones in all drivers ' cabs was to be completed in January 1993 . |
| 11 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 12 | Shortly , we shall launch a further information campaign because , to achieve the changes in junior doctors ' hours , it is important that the NHS task forces in each region can work with the juniors , managers and consultants to find practical solutions at their particular places of work . |
| 13 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 14 | All species in region ( except Senegal Coucal ) laying their eggs in other birds ' nests . |
| 15 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
| 16 | Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time . |
| 17 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 18 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 19 | But given the recent decline in numbers of tenured black academics , falling Ph.Ds , retention , enrolment , and grade point averages among black students , and a decreased political commitment to their education , there are unlikely to be widespread , long-term improvements in black students ' , professors ' , and professionals ' positions in psychology . |
| 20 | His influence in stemming the Swansea flow could not be overstated and he now looks certain to face his fellow countrymen in two weeks ' time . |
| 21 | Seeing patients in general practitioners ' surgeries is no different from seeing patients in private consulting rooms — a practice that fails to provoke outrage among dermatologists . |
| 22 | I have no figures on the throughput of passengers in those stations ' heyday , but I hazard a guess that considerably more passengers now use the combined stations . |
| 23 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 24 | Sixty-five per cent of the economy will remain in state hands in six years ' time and workers will no longer elect managers . |
| 25 | If we do the same tests in 10 years ' time , we almost certainly will not get the same set of results . ’ |
| 26 | and erm then we kept the babies in different toddlers ' homes at |
| 27 | Edinburgh graduates have risen rapidly to the top of their profession , obtaining partnerships in consulting engineers ' design offices , senior posts in local authority offices , directorships of civil engineering contractors and university chairs . |
| 28 | After several months of a total dearth of exhibitions in grander dealers ' galleries , there are signs of something approaching the usual seasonal increase . |
| 29 | Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process . |
| 30 | Wheelchair Basketball This is a demonstration sport this year , with the aim of introducing competition between the boroughs in 12 months ' time . |