Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 2 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 3 | For instance , on the basis of last year 's births , we can make a fairly accurate assessment of the number of first-year secondary school places required in 11 or 12 years ' time , because this depends mainly on fairly stable child mortality patterns . |
| 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 | Provisions for parental leave range from 18 months ' low flat rate pay in Germany , or six months ' leave at 30 per cent of earnings in Italy , to three months ' unpaid leave in Greece . |
| 6 | In 1844 , after Coleman 's time , the course at the Edinburgh ‘ Dick ’ School was apparently a mere five or six months ' duration . |
| 7 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |
| 8 | If the employer failed to comply with an order to reinstate , the maximum special award is the greater of £20,100 or 156 weeks ' pay without there being any limit on a week 's pay . |
| 9 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 10 | They should look at the Europe that will exist in five or 10 years ' time , at a Community with 18 or 20 members and perhaps even more , and at the interests that we have in common — security , defence , foreign policy , the environment , prosperity and peace in the world . |
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| 12 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 13 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 14 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 15 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 16 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 17 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 18 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 19 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 20 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 21 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 22 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 23 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 24 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 25 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 26 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 27 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 28 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 29 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |
| 30 | This usually requires the tenant to give sixty or ninety days ' notice , sometimes after an agreed minimum period of four to six months . |