Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-month period between finishing his Special-to-Theatre EOD course at the School of Ammunition and arriving in the Province suddenly became two days ' notice , due to a shortfall in EOD Operators . |
| 2 | Contract Procedure and Payments : the farmer wishing to have contract work carried out normally gave 4–5 days ' notice ; the administrator located a suitable machine not being used by its owner on the required date , and the operator collected the machine and carried out the work ; the farmer paid the group the agreed rate per acre for the work done ; the group paid the owner of the machine the agreed rate for the hire of the machine ; the operator was paid for the hours worked . |
| 3 | A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools . |
| 4 | Two young Harvard dealers who were sacked still owed two months ' rent . |
| 5 | It also welcomed these republics ' affirmation of " their readiness to respect the international commitments of the Soviet Union and to ensure single control of nuclear weapons on their territory " [ see p. 38655 ] . |
| 6 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 7 | P&O Containers then shipped British entrants ' cars and equipment back to the UK . |
| 8 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 9 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 10 | I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting . |
| 11 | He therefore lacked those breeds ' capacity to ‘ set the problem in terms of historical perspective or first principles ’ . |
| 12 | With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions . |
| 13 | So we never had any doctors ' bills . |