Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ' [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a mark of her popularity , Betty Law had a tremendous farewell when she retired from Douglas Reyburn on 12th September after 45 years ' of unbroken service . |
| 2 | A detailed comparison should make it possible to filter out the effects of intervening variables ' from more ‘ fundamental ’ determinants of variations in the ‘ dependent variables ’ . |
| 3 | There is no long term advantage of three months ' over one month 's treatment . |
| 4 | This motif occurs also at his church of North Runcton , Norfolk , rebuilt 1703–13 , which shares with All Saints ' in Northampton the plan of a Greek cross within a rectangle , probably derived from Wren 's St Mary-at-Hill . |
| 5 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 6 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 7 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 8 | On Dec. 1 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from 20 years ' to 10 years ' hard labour . |
| 9 | They will normally be worked out automatically but see also ‘ Extra help for former non-ratepayers ' below . |
| 10 | Depending on the system , a disc can contain from thirty to sixty minutes ' of moving pictures on each side . |
| 11 | This had been among the most violent events reported during several weeks ' of clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] . |