Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN all-weather soccer pitch made of supertough plastic is out of action after only six months ' use . |
| 2 | With $36 million in the box-office after only five weeks ' release , and the movie yet to travel outside America , big profits are guaranteed . |
| 3 | Benson died after only three days ' illness 5 July 1924 at his cottage , Castle Corner , in Manorbier , Pembrokeshire . |
| 4 | After just 12 months ' training , they will be able to teach nursery and infant pupils . |
| 5 | After about two months ' work on the picture , including four days ' shooting , Ronald Neame — a veteran cinematographer , producer and director of British films — left , claiming too much interference from Zanuck . |
| 6 | At last , after about twenty minutes ' wandering , her feet soaking wet inside her leaking boots , and her leg muscles aching from wading through the snow , she arrived at the car park outside the administration block , and found her car . |
| 7 | After almost four years ' hard study in addition to her job , Sarah Blackburn of group internal audit was congratulated on May 26 by David Quarmby , joint managing director , on attaining an MBA . |
| 8 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
| 9 | The details of the timetable motion allow for just five days ' debate on a Bill which is 103 pages long , contains 94 clauses and nine schedules and which must report back to the House by 26 February . |
| 10 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
| 11 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 12 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |
| 13 | I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration . |
| 14 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 15 | Providing recordings of approximately 10 hours ' duration on open reel tape . |
| 16 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately 55 minutes ' duration , consisting of 8 programmes of approximately 7 minutes each . |
| 17 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each . |
| 18 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each . |
| 19 | SIR — As a master mariner of nearly 40 years ' standing , I am continually upset by the criticism of Captain Lord ( report , April 3 ) . |
| 20 | But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation . |
| 21 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 22 | The cash was the equivalent of about two years ' salary for the education director , Frank Pignatelli . |
| 23 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 24 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 25 | But much more detailed and as a result not only of about twelve days ' training which we 've undertaken in that area with the management team , or various of them , but also of our experience over the last eighteen months in operating it . |
| 26 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 27 | recommended that the procedure is applied to spontaneous speech samples of about 30 minutes ' duration , although there is no reason why this should not be varied . |
| 28 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 29 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 30 | His retirement in 1990 as Chairman of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' Committee marked the end of over 15 years ' association with Surrey Youth Cricket . |