Example sentences of "[coord] the [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's not Street or the Four Seasons ' Centre either . |
| 2 | She told Lily everything , but no one else , except Aunt Millie who was Ma 's older sister and the two girls ' greatest ally . |
| 3 | A breakthrough occurred at the funeral of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in February 1989 when Suharto held talks with Qian , and the two countries ' respective UN missions as a consequence began normalization talks [ see pp. 36462 ; 36935 ; 37124 ; 37578 ] . |
| 4 | Shocked , everyone turned to look at him , and he briefly registered the faces and the expressions — his mother 's , the butler 's the cook 's and the two maids ' — before Jane turned and brushed past him , her face set , here eyes hard and glittering . |
| 5 | By Oct. 23 tensions were reported to have eased , following Kuwait 's mediation and the two sides ' apparent agreement on border demarcation by an international company , and the appointment of a joint technical committee . |
| 6 | ‘ This ban is a pain but I just have to get on with it and make the most of the top games I am allowed to play between now and the Five Nations ' . ’ |
| 7 | Antiochus ' persecution and the Seven Brothers ' martyrdom typified the situation . |
| 8 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |
| 9 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 10 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |