Example sentences of "a [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 32 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 33 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 34 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 35 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |
| 36 | This is an indictable offence which carries a two years ' prison sentence . |
| 37 | Well nobody wanted them jobs because it was a seven days ' a week job . |
| 38 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |