Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna made herself comfortable and prepared to sleep , wondering , despite the fact that she was tired , whether or not the thoughts tumbling through her mind would be still long enough to allow her two or three precious hours ' rest . |
| 2 | So we have to keep ahead of that , because we 're planning the benefits for you , twenty or twenty five years ' time . |
| 3 | One or two nineteenth-century gunmakers ' workshops survive in Birmingham 's old Gun Quarter , in Bath Street and Loveday Street , and one of the local pubs is called the Gunmaker 's Arms . |
| 4 | The aid formula of the House bill provided the unemployed with six , 13 or 20 additional weeks ' benefit depending on their state of residence . |
| 5 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 6 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 7 | Alec Watt began his work with Stoddard in 1948 and forty five years ' later he retired at the end of March . |
| 8 | The bad news is that there were two hundred and thirteen thousand pounds ' worth of non- recurring income items to reach that and this means that the Association 's routine activities ran at a deficit of twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts . |