Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 2 | Arriving in tltis self-proclaimed cultural centre of Australia , we had 30 minutes ' stopover while the big Australian National Railway diesels were uncoupled and a new pair attached for the journey to New South Wales . |
| 3 | I encourage women to have induction at 43 weeks ' gestation because of the slightly increased risk to the baby thereafter . |
| 4 | Bergsjo et al suggested 43 weeks ' gestation as induction at this time has a lower incidence of failure . |
| 5 | A yearly tenancy is determinable by the landlord or the tenant at the end of the first or any subsequent year of the tenancy by six months ' notice unless the agreement between the parties provides otherwise . |
| 6 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 7 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 8 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 9 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 10 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 11 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 12 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 13 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 14 | The first College certificate was granted on 22 April 1794 to Edmund Bond , after 18 months ' instruction while a resident pupil . |
| 15 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 16 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 17 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 18 | Studies published in the late sixties reported that asthmatic women were more likely to have babies of less than 37 weeks ' gestation than non-asthmatic women . |
| 19 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 20 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 21 | The Admiral who had been appointed as the boss of Playboy UK got a golden handshake of nearly £12 million for four months ' tenure as the firm was taken over . |
| 22 | This would give him eighteen months ' salary as compensation for loss of office , and his pension was not to begin until the eighteen month period had elapsed . |
| 23 | His suite would probably cost nearer four weeks ' salary than two . |
| 24 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 25 | What will its price be in four weeks ' time if interest rates remain unchanged ? |
| 26 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |
| 27 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 28 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 29 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 30 | But councillors are urging officials to get on with spending because the authority could go out of business in two years ' time if local government is reorganised . |