Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 2 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 3 | At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica : |
| 4 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 5 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 6 | The six Antiquaires à Paris dealers , returning to the Biennale after six year 's absence , brought some great eighteenth-century French furniture with them . |
| 7 | He explained that by July of 1989 Tony 's doctor , James Howe discussed the situation with Mr and Mrs Bland . |
| 8 | I said you ai n't sharp I said you 've got all your priorities wrong I said you stood there Jane with thirteen pound ai n't you , in an envelope ? |
| 9 | A computer survey of 80 insurance companies revealed that a 24-year-old male living in St Albans with three years ' no claims bonus would pay £676 to insure a Furio , compared to £1,344 for a Golf and £1,560 for a 105bhp Escort XR3i . |
| 10 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 11 | DEBBIE ADAMS had to let her East End terrace house in London in a hurry when her husband was re-located to Ireland with two months ' notice . |
| 12 | She 'd be dreadful when they came to Der Zarewitsch in three weeks ' time ; like playing Arsena again . |
| 13 | After Edward 's departure for England in 1274 Tany 's powers and authority as seneschal were carefully defined , but his rule does not appear to have been successful . |
| 14 | A Washington on XV Squadron 's dispersal at Coningsby , 1952 . |
| 15 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
| 16 | The former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , was sentenced in Dhaka to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " on June 12 after being found guilty by a special tribunal of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 17 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
| 18 | THE Kellogg 's Tour of Britain will start for the first time in Portsmouth and finish in Liverpool after 550 miles ' racing in five days in August . |
| 19 | Some others , though , among them the winner in Paris in two Sundays ' time , will be mysteriously gathering rather than losing strength . |
| 20 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 21 | The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition . |
| 22 | Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ? |
| 23 | Her best chance would come when they reached Ibiza in two days ' time . |
| 24 | Elena described her feelings on returning to the little town of her birth , San Jose de las Flores , in Chalatenango after three years ' absence . |
| 25 | A US court in Miami , Florida , sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega to 40 years ' imprisonment on July 10 on drugs and racketeering charges . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | CRAY RESEARCH REPLACES ENTRY-LEVEL Y-MP EL WITH TWO- TWO-PROCESSOR EL98 |
| 28 | Henderson returned to have both Rennie and Peall caught at long leg , leaving Durham with 19 overs ' batting to the close . |
| 29 | The defeat of Redgrave and Pinsent is unlikely to prevent their selection for the Olympic coxless pairs and it could prove to have been a useful warning to the world champions to raise their performance for Cologne in two weeks ' time , when all the potential Olympic crews will have their first try-out . |
| 30 | On his return to France in 1935 Nizan 's conviction that the Soviet state represented the ultimate international safeguard against fascist barbarism and oppression was strengthened by the growing success of the Popular Front movements in France and Spain . |