Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [num] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each piece was one week 's work . |
| 2 | Bradford City Centre interchange is five minutes ' walk from the Museum with rail , bus and taxi service under one roof . |
| 3 | One that is tasting particularly well at the moment is 1989 Nobilo 's Dixon Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay , which is available from Asda for £8.99 , the Australian Wine Centre ( £9.49 ) and Averys of Bristol ( £9.26 ) which supplies by mail order ( 0272 214141 ) . |
| 4 | The penalty for early redemption is three months ' interest . |
| 5 | The Lower Tier is five minutes ' walk away . |
| 6 | The paper was four days ' old . |
| 7 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 8 | Ebenezer Howard 's ‘ garden city ’ movement was one man 's attempt to express the desire for a more suburban type of existence , although this was only ever fully developed in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth . |
| 9 | Moreover , the maximum penalty for the section 47 offence is five years ' imprisonment , with no apparent justification for the strange approach of making the penalty equivalent to the higher offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( the section 20 offence ) , and the fault requirement equivalent to the lower offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( common assault , with a maximum of six months ' imprisonment ) . |
| 10 | In Scotland , the penalty for a summary offence is three months ' imprisonment or a fine , but not both . |
| 11 | All this side of the road is one officer 's area that they have to cover on foot . |
| 12 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 13 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 14 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 15 | The maximum penalty is ten years ' imprisonment , compared with a maximum of five years for the lesser offence of violent disorder . |
| 16 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 17 | History is one person 's interpretation of events . |
| 18 | The current maximum is one years ' pay and 18 months of medical coverage . |
| 19 | The final stage is two years ' apprenticeship to an established solicitor , known as articles of clerkship , which can be regarded as the clinical stage of training during which the skills of managing an office , interviewing clients , writing letters , instructing counsel and handling client money are learned . |