Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Katy Reynolds won the silver in the 1981 girls ' breaststroke in her first championships and Margaretha Pedder took silver in the 1980 girls ' freestyle . |
2 | For the boys , Robert Chapman did well to win the bronze medal in the 1982 boys ' butterfly and Philip Traviss brought his bronze tally up to three with third place in the 1980 boys ' freestyle . |
3 | The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
4 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
5 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
6 | The 1925 Widows ' , Orphans ' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act was thus the product of several impulses — desire by the advocates of 1924 ‘ new Conservatism ’ ( especially Neville Chamberlain ) to forge a specifically Conservative brand of social reform in the new post-1918 conditions of virtual mass democracy , the mothers ' pensions challenge by Labour , the ‘ all-in insurance ’ activity within Whitehall in 1923–4 ( represented by the Anderson and Watson Committees ) , and the first glimmerings of realization that better pensions might encourage retirement and reduce the unemployment statistics . |
7 | The treaty and related documents , including separate protocols and declarations , were signed by the 12 countries ' Foreign and Finance Ministers . |
8 | The report shows that the 12 members ' emissions of CO2 are likely to total 2,878 million tonnes , compared to the 1990 level of 2,775 million tonnes , which is the target . |
9 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
10 | Of the remaining three practices , one contributed for all but one of the 12 months ' data collection period , one supplied data for 10 out of 12 months , and one supplied data for eight months only . |
11 | There is also the tiresome coyness over what is already feigned , which leads Thorpe to insert parentheses and question marks in the 1830s rioters ' despositions , and footnotes in a 1950s sound recording to the effect that five seconds have been lost ‘ due to electrical interference ’ . |
12 | Yet in the 1980s the capacity of a determined government to ‘ sit out ’ forms of direct action — most obviously in the case of the 1985 miners ' strike — raises doubts even about this form of pressure-group action . |
13 | To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event . |
14 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
15 | The first bell you hear is the 30 seconds ' warning . |
16 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
17 | Similarly , if you are lagging behind at the 30 seconds ' bell , it is not too late for you to win the bout . |
18 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
19 | An East German parliamentary committee yesterday dismissed a draft travel law , saying that the 30 days ' travel to be granted a year in no way met people 's expectations . |
20 | There was one major exception which worked well — the Civil Contingencies Unit created after the 1972 miners ' strike . |
21 | Mr Benn got 38 of the 221 MPs ' votes cast in 1988 and , he ruefully noted this week , a much worse press . |
22 | IAN RUSH moved within one goal of Roger Hunt 's all-time scoring record of 285 goals for Liverpool with a four-goal spree in the 6-1 Cup-Winners ' Cup thrashing of Apollon Limassol . |
23 | In all four of the six Bondholders ' Committee representatives supported the proposal . |
24 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |
25 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |
26 | In the middle of the afternoon , at the end of the six hours ' questioning , Mrs B was driven back through the dark , dreary day , and dumped outside her garage door . |
27 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
28 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
29 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
30 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |