Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 2 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 3 | Only employees with two or more years ' continuous service qualify for unfair dismissal rights . |
| 4 | So , the network can simultaneously represent a single reader 's conception of nine different texts , or nine readers ' different reactions to the same text . |
| 5 | Likewise the Secondary Science Curriculum Review adopted a periphery-centre strategy whereby the products of local or school-based teachers ' working groups were evaluated and published by the central project team . |
| 6 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 7 | There were a number of comments made about 24 or 48 hours ' advance notice of courses which meant people who wished to attend having to miss them . |