Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | In Baltimore , Maryland , Julian M. Seidel , former president of the First Maryland Savings and Loan company , and James R. Porter , former senior vice-president of the defunct Silver Springs thrift , were sentenced to 12 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively for falsely inflating the worth of their companies to attract depositors . |
| 3 | It was this tradition , frequently ‘ unofficial ’ , which maintained Tyne side industrial militancy in a range of important disputes in the 1960s and 1970s , including the 1966 seamen 's strike , and the 1972 and 1974 miners ' strikes . |
| 4 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 5 | It means that Britain will no longer have a permanent presence in the Security Council in 10 or 15 years ' time . |
| 6 | The union will also be asked to adopt a plan to enable ministers with 10 or more years ' service to take three-month Sabbaticals . |
| 7 | Some of those activities will be continued whichever Government are administering the country 's affairs in six or seven months ' time . |
| 8 | Although the Department of Trade and Industry estimates that between 250,000 and 300,000 companies ' turnover falls below the VAT registration threshold , the exemption limit is considerably lower than that proposed by , among others , the accountancy profession in the last consultation period . |
| 9 | I mean obviously er you said eight six and three months er any future ideas as to looking to their education in the future . |
| 10 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
| 11 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Indamiro Restano and Maria Elena Aparicio , both leaders of the illegal Harmonious Social Democratic Movement , were sentenced to 10 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively on May 26 . |
| 13 | It was reported on Jan. 3 , 1991 , that two ETA members , José Antonio López Rúiz " Kubati " , and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " , had been sentenced to 47 and 26 years ' imprisonment respectively for the murder in September 1986 of the amnestied ETA member María Dolores González Catarain " Yoyes " [ see p. 34825 ; for earlier conviction of Fermin see p. 37588 ] . |
| 14 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 15 | The carriage of the coal used at these quarries , the consumption of which is at present some 600 or 700 tons per annum , would also produce considerable revenue . |
| 16 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 17 | I can not believe the amount of injury time actually , you see if I put a record on at half past eight they 'll have finished bang on half past eight but er the fact that I carry on rabbiting and telling you about the quiz competition three or four times er they decide to play plenty of injury time . |
| 18 | Looking back , every solo on ‘ Rust In Peace ’ would 've needed another three or four hours ' more work to have satisfied Max , because they 're all in and out of time . |
| 19 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |
| 20 | So I 'll ask you a question in about er , three or four minutes ' time , which could result in you 're going out next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 21 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 22 | Erm these er this is a one a of three or four photographs erm from the Society collection . |
| 23 | It 's the last three or four months erm the lack of education they 've had over that time . |
| 24 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 25 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
| 26 | The courses are of three or four years ' duration . |
| 27 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 28 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 29 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |
| 30 | The course is of three or four years ' duration . |