Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | Exceptionally , 12 months ' extension may be granted ( Ord 7 , r 20(3) ) . |
2 | The routine for a haulier offering 30 days ' credit might look like this : |
3 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
4 | In his report delivered the next day , he observed that the road surface was not yet completed and that only drivers with at least six years ' service could be employed on Anerley Hill . |
5 | The greatest advantage , however , was that 8–10 weeks ' notice could be given of precise dates , venues and course programme . |
6 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
7 | Basically , however , secure tenants of three years ' standing can buy their houses at discounts ranging from 33 per cent of market price to a maximum of 50 per cent . |
8 | The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion . |
9 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
10 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
11 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
12 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
13 | Fifteen artists ' work will be included . |
14 | Making the engine that powered Williams to the Formula 1 constructors ' championship ca n't be bad for business , either . |
15 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
16 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
17 | • Viewers who can pick up BBC 1 Wales ' transmission can see Tony Matthews ' verdict on the chances of Welsh food in the North American arena on ‘ Farming in Wales ’ , Sunday July 28 at 10.00 am , when he comments on the products on display at the Royal Welsh Show Food Hall . |
18 | His surgeon has said that two years ' rest may improve the problem significantly . |
19 | The results of his last two years ' work can be seen during Spring 1992 in two exhibitions : Gulf at the Imperial War Museum , and Not the Gulf at Waterman 's Arts Centre . |
20 | The results of his last two years ' work can be seen during Spring 1992 in two exhibitions : Gulf at the Imperial War Museum , and Not the Gulf at Waterman 's Arts Centre . |
21 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
22 | The rapid recording or repetition of the circumstances of longitudinal experiments in science meant that in a day and a night , without any intervention from a pupil or a teacher , the replication of two terms ' work could be completed . |
23 | ( d ) Twenty-four hours ' notice must be given to the Corporation of any proposed movement of cars across the West Croydon Junction . |
24 | Seven nights ' stay will cost £1,500 . |