Example sentences of "four [noun pl] ' [noun] and " in BNC.
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1 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
2 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
3 | My father was due four months ' leave and this they spent at Beachley , his attractive house near Chepstow at the mouth of the Severn . |
4 | The preferential debts of the employees are set out in Schedule 6 to the Insolvency Act 1986 and include four months ' wages and accrued holiday remuneration . |
5 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
6 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
7 | He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO . |
8 | ‘ Four years ' work and $12 million could go down the tubes , ’ said Conner . |
9 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
10 | Sentence : four years ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
11 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
12 | Clydesdale stores , with electrical shops in the Midlands , the North and Scotland , are currently offering four days ' bed and breakfast at any hotel in the Stakis chain for the price of one . |
13 | The offer means a couple can get four days ' bed and breakfast at the Stakis Newbury hotel for £108 . |
14 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |