Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , a supplement should be paid if a repayment is not made within 30 days of Customs ' receipt of the return . |
| 2 | Three aspects of teachers ' knowledge will be analysed : i ) knowledge of the subject being taught ; ii ) capacity to represent it in a variety of appropriate ways related to the knowledge and experience of the type of pupils to whom it was taught ; and iii ) knowledge and understanding of the relevant pedagogy . |
| 3 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 4 | These three values are the names of three clusters of birds ' sizes . |
| 5 | Why should governments , even the Thatcher government , which is strongly committed to allowing market forces to work , spend several billion pounds of taxpayers ' money promoting R&D ? |
| 6 | 15.11.3 Appeals from experts ' decisions |
| 7 | Additional measures included cuts of $11,900 million over five years in farm commodity programmes , and reductions of $3,700 million over five years in veterans ' benefits . |
| 8 | Figure 8 Sources of pensioners ' incomes 1979 and 1987 |
| 9 | A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches . |
| 10 | He can expect a change of pace in his new job : whereas he was responsible for 290 students at Goldsmiths ' , the Maastricht programme has eight students per year in a two-year course . |
| 11 | Over the back of the chair next to the table were two pairs of vergers ' white cotton gloves drying . |
| 12 | They highlighted two defects in pluralists ' insistence on studying actual decision-making and observable political conflicts . |
| 13 | Two extracts from students ' responses will illustrate the sort of four-minute stories that were written : |
| 14 | Some six million pounds of taxpayers ' money , it is thought , was syphoned to the Provisional IRA through compensation claims for bombed buildings prior to 1976 . |
| 15 | There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium . |
| 16 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |