Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 2 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 3 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 4 | This incongruity was exposed in the spring of 1963 during a famous miners ' strike . |
| 5 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |
| 6 | During the latter half of 1990 intercommunal and linguistic tensions were again raised by a long-running teachers ' strike which from September severely disrupted both state and private schools in French-speaking Wallonia , where teachers were demanding pay increases in line with those paid in ( more prosperous ) Flanders . |