Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise .
2 I do not want to know what she intends doing in a year 's time or in 10 years ' time , because she will not be in government then .
3 Follow your own energy , and do whatever attracts you — bearing in mind that an exercise might be helpful next week , or in six months ' time , rather than now .
4 And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey .
5 Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount .
6 Thirteen patients were studied before and after 2–12 weeks ' treatment with metronidazole 800 mg/day , while maintaining an unchanged NSAID intake .
7 From there , he took a direct flight to Larnaca , Cyprus , and after four hours ' sleep , caught the midnight ferry to Jounieh .
8 After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government .
9 At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences .
10 People join the savings club and after 12 weeks ' contributing can get loans at 1 per cent interest .
11 Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more .
12 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 .
13 International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT .
14 Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’
15 An Essay on Food Reform and in 1892 Animals ' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress ( reissued in 1900 , 1905 , and 1915 ) .
16 And in six weeks ' time , we will know if the cup will remain with San Diego YC , or go to Italy , New Zealand , France or , less likely , Japan .
17 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
18 Those terms in this case include provision for termination for good cause under section 34(1) and on three months ' notice as one of the terms of the appointment under section 34(3) .
19 By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months .
20 He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively .
21 Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity .
22 But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ?
23 " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye .
24 But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea .
25 Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective .
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