Example sentences of "by [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
| 2 | A yearly tenancy is determinable by the landlord or the tenant at the end of the first or any subsequent year of the tenancy by six months ' notice unless the agreement between the parties provides otherwise . |
| 3 | These authorities indicate plainly enough that the agreement in the present case did not create a lease and that the tenancy from year to year enjoyed by the tenant as a result of entering into possession and paying a yearly rent can be determined by six months ' notice by either landlord or tenant . |
| 4 | An encouraging letter from him was followed by six weeks ' silence , so eventually she walked into his office and confronted him . |
| 5 | A worrying report , published by three teachers ' unions just a few minutes before national curriculum boss David Pascall issued his ‘ back to basics ’ clarion call , revealed a staggering 80,000 teachers — one in five — want to quit their jobs . |
| 6 | The agreement provided for the determination of the agreement by three months ' written notice given by either party to the other subject to a proviso that the landlords should not exercise that right unless they required the premises for their undertaking . |
| 7 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 8 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 9 | By 1960 widows ' pensions were available in all public sector occupations apart from teaching , though they were still relatively uncommon in the private sector which continued to rely on ‘ allocation ’ options and lump sum provision ( Government Actuary , 1958 , 1966 ) . |
| 10 | Doomed — by ten minutes ' madness |
| 11 | More than half teenage marriages are likely to end in divorce by twenty-five years ' duration at risks current in 1979–82 ( Haskey 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 13 | This study shows that the long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201–995 given subcutaneously in a dose of 25 µg three times daily can abolish hypergastrinaemia induced by five days ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg once daily in man . |
| 14 | Training involves a two-year residential course which leads to the Nursery Nursing Examination Board diploma , followed by nine months ' probation with a family . |
| 15 | Once this increase becomes easier , change to 45 seconds ' exercise followed by 15 seconds ' rest . |
| 16 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 17 | The summit at Cancun in Mexico was attended by twenty-two countries ' leaders . |
| 18 | From 1971 to 1977 he had also been " Head of Wasdale " , a former one-roomed schoolhouse in the Lake District which he had transformed into the School 's Outdoor Pursuits Centre , guided by seven years ' experience on the Corsica trips between 1966 and 1972 . |
| 19 | The risk decreased by 39 weeks ' gestation to about 1.1 per 1000 ( 1 in 909 ) . |