Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 2 | There was a company rule incorporated into the woman 's terms and conditions that where an employee exceeded 26 weeks ' continuous sick leave , he or she would be dismissed . |
| 3 | At present the Chancellor has nine days ' prior warning of the crucial retail price figures . |
| 4 | The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages . |
| 5 | All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years ' improvement to bring about secondary education for all . |
| 6 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 7 | National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists . |
| 8 | The Indian team observed two minutes ' silence before the Perth Test . |
| 9 | the Trader shall be entitled at any time prior to commencement of transit to give seven days ' written notice to the Carrier requiring that the aforementioned £800 per tonne limit be increased but not so as to exceed the value of the Consignment and in the event of such notice being given the Trader shall within the said seven days agree with the Carrier an increase in the carriage charges in consideration of the said increased limit . |
| 10 | Hermione Lee 's preference , which I share , is for the disturbed , dark novels of Cather 's middle period — she is particularly good on The Professor 's House , a story whose protagonist contemplates a failing marriage and a philistine world from a writing room containing two dressmakers ' dummies , or ‘ forms ’ . |
| 11 | Within the box , apart from the seemingly obligatory chunk of pink polystyrene , lies a disk containing seven games ' worth of code . |
| 12 | Identified by police witnesses as the ‘ Somers Town Boys ’ , the two youths charged with assault received six weeks ' hard labour and a month 's hard labour . |
| 13 | The bond ( whose price includes 137 days ' accrued interest on 1 April ) has to be financed at the money market rate of 10 per cent for the 90 days between 1 April and 30 June , when the bond ( if it happens to be the CTD ) is delivered into the futures market . |
| 14 | The exhibition was called ‘ Take Five Plus ’ an original name developed three years ' ago when five designers clubbed together for their first exhibition . |
| 15 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 16 | The court gives seven days ' notice to the parties ( Ord 22 , r 6(1) ) . |
| 17 | ROSEMARY MOON had seven years ' experience in the domestic appliance industry , both in research and international marketing , before embarking on a freelance career . |
| 18 | The newly formed Catering Committee is expected early next month to consider two consultants ' reports on the architectural feasibility and management implications of converting the premises of the former St. Stephen 's tavern into a refreshment facility for groups of Members ' visitors . |
| 19 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 20 | Withdrawals can be made penalty free if 90 days ' notice is given ; instant access means 90 days ' loss of interest . |
| 21 | Dr David Moore of Manchester University on the decision to allow the British astronaut to take 24 quails ' eggs and 24 mushrooms on the Soviet Juno space mission People are standing in front of the toaster saying ‘ Faster , faster ’ . |
| 22 | Neither is it sufficient to obtain a correct definition ( e.g. " a triangle has three sides ' ) as this does not guarantee that the pupils will not reject an obtuse angled triangle as a triangle . |
| 23 | A 21-year-old Liverpool man serving seven years ' detention for robbing women working in two Southampton shops was refused leave by the Criminal Appeal Court in London to appeal against his conviction and sentence . |
| 24 | £30,000 lorry hijack earns four years ' jail |
| 25 | Employees at Henry Sykes and Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance have three days ' special leave . |
| 26 | I got a fresh whack of borstal , the lad got borstal and the other lass got fifteen months ' prison . |
| 27 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 28 | In ‘ A Word of Thanks ’ the author reveals that writing the book took 10 months ' ‘ hard slog ’ at his ‘ hide-out in Praia da Luz , Algarve ’ . |
| 29 | The great value weekend includes two nights ' accommodation with private bathroom , and one round of golf . |
| 30 | In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you . |