Example sentences of "[det] [noun] ' [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 2 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 3 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 4 | The pack emphasises that , for most smaller employers , assessments need take only a few minutes ' observation and the use of common sense . |
| 5 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |
| 6 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 7 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 8 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 9 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 10 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 11 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 12 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 13 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
| 14 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
| 15 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 16 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 17 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 18 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 19 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 20 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 21 | ( 11 ) To transfer proceedings to another magistrates ' court or to a county court . |
| 22 | One such parents ' group provided parent support , training , day and evening activities , holidays , camps , and overnight stays in its own house ; another ran a training house , provided overnight and weekend stays , and — starting in 1989 — ran a registered ( staffed ) home and an unstaffed home . |
| 23 | They are often the most difficult to assess since their experience usually lies outside that of social workers , who may be suspicious of such applicants ' knowledge but uneasy about rejecting their apparently confident experience . |
| 24 | Their reward was an encounter against New Zealand , but the All Blacks ' strength and experience proved too much for the Koreans as they went down 14–0 . |
| 25 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 26 | Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary . |
| 27 | Welfare benefits currently form a higher proportion of many individuals ' income that was formerly the case , because of the rise in unemployment to levels unheard of since the 1930s , and because of the increase in the number of old people who are dependent upon state pensions . |
| 28 | Leaving the church and looking across the road you will see to your right the Renaissance portal of the Royal Palace , the All Saints ' Chapel and the Institute of Gentlewomen . |
| 29 | As these colleges became overcrowded , the large monasteries set up their own academic halls , including Sempringham Hall and Durham Hall in St. Peter 's Street , Peterborough Hall in All Saints ' Street and Vaudey Hall ( owned by Vallis Dei Abbey near Grimsthorpe ) in St. Mary 's Street . |
| 30 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |