Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No fewer than eight classic Stones ' tracks make up Rooster , the new work from leading choreographer Christopher Bruce , which can be seen as part of a triple bill at the Empire from tonight until Saturday . |
| 2 | PLANS to close eight old peoples ' homes in Co Durham are disgraceful , says Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington . |
| 3 | There has been a great deal of national publicity about the plans of the Labour-controlled Nottinghamshire authority to close 12 old peoples ' homes . |
| 4 | 2 ripe avocados , peeled and sliced lemon juice 2 × 200g/7oz Mozzarella cheese , sliced 4 large flavoursome tomatoes , sliced 1 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped mixed herbs 12 smoked quails ' eggs 4 × 15ml/tbsp set natural yogurt salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 × 15ml/tbsp virgin olive oil crusty bread for serving |
| 5 | On average 10–12 Private Members ' Bills become law each session . |
| 6 | When the Stock Exchange opened the FT-SE index of the 100 largest companies ' shares jumped by more than 130 points and peaked at lunchtime with a 151-point rise . |
| 7 | However , it must be pointed out that there will be an early encashment charge if you do so before you have paid six full years ' contributions . |
| 8 | If you have paid six full years ' contributions before you cease payments , the Society will make your policy paid-up , leaving the units purchased to remain invested until such time you make a request to encash them . |
| 9 | Although the first revolt was crushed , Desmond Boal could still raise thirteen Unionist backbenchers ' signatures for the removal of O'Neill , and Lord Brookeborough , only three years after handing the premiership to O'Neill , was leading a whispering campaign against him . |
| 10 | And the headlines this lunchtime it 's confirmed that Calverton Colliery in Nottinghamshire is to go into the review procedure putting another six hundred miners ' jobs at risk . |
| 11 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 12 | Three major citizens ' movements from eastern Germany — Democracy Now , the Peace and Human Rights Initiative and parts of New Forum — merged in Potsdam on Sept. 21 to form Alliance 90 ( the name under which these movements had contested elections in 1990 ) . |
| 13 | In East Berlin on Feb. 7 the three left-wing citizens ' movements ( New Forum , Democracy Now and Initiative for Peace and Human Rights — by then all represented in the government ) agreed to campaign together as the Electoral Alliance " 90 ( Wahlbündnis " 90 ) . |
| 14 | More than a dozen other candidates ' names — some frivolous , others serious — have been bandied about , particularly since Lord Wilson 's departure was brutally disclosed four months early by his elevation to the peerage at New Year . |
| 15 | Your article gives the three main parties ' responses . |
| 16 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 17 | It will examine 16-18 year-old pupils ' responses to arguments about science-based social issues as presented in video/TV programmes , through small group discussions and relate this to two types of science course being taken at school by students of comparable ability — Science , Technology and Society ( STS ) courses , and more formal science courses . |
| 18 | Among the remaining 13 private members ' bills , whose chances are far more dependent on the amount of controversy they attract , are measures to compensate British nuclear test victims , abolish poll tax warrant sales in Scotland , and lay down car telephones standards . |
| 19 | 1.5.3 Challenging experts ' decisions |
| 20 | The Equal Opportunities Commission brought an application for judicial review in December 1990 , claiming that it was against European law to require men to pay NI for longer and to make five more years ' contributions than women in order to receive full pensions entitlement . |
| 21 | In Japan during the 1920s expanding employers ' associations also became active in opposing government labour policy . |
| 22 | Joan Gatfield 's Bromley and Grove Park classes achieved a new-membership total of over 100 by saving one-and two-penny pieces and sponsoring five senior citizens ' classes to join the Society . |
| 23 | The case against the logging companies was brought by the Nucleus for Indigenous Rights , on behalf of a coalition of some 70 Brazilian citizens ' groups waging a campaign against the logging of mahogany . |
| 24 | A fine private collection of over 40 historic dolls ' houses ( 1700–1900 ) with their period furniture , carpets , dinner services , silver , miniature and books and inhabitants . |
| 25 | Further , instead of taking the average of the twenty best years ' earnings after 1978 , SERPS will now take an average earnings of all years worked . |
| 26 | Other objects on show will include a late sixteenth-century marriage casket inlaid with numerous panels of staghorn depicting a marriage celebration and other classical motifs , including eight copper-gilt engravers ' plates , each engraved with a Virtue . |
| 27 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 28 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 29 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 30 | She passed two closed solicitors ' offices on the main street . |