Example sentences of "a [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 2 | In that case the judge passed a six months ' suspended prison sentence , allowing the defendant to walk free from the court . |
| 3 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 4 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 5 | The successors to the landlords served a six months ' written notice to quit under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 although they did not require the premises for their undertaking . |
| 6 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 7 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 8 | The Fritz Bank foreign exchange dealer in Frankfurt might quote the exporter a three months ' DM forward rate at a premium of DM0.05–0.04 . |
| 9 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 10 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 11 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 12 | He must have been a very brotherly father , since he was only three years older — though it 's true that he was a Hungarian and a Jew , and by the age of 20 had a thousand years ' experience . |
| 13 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 14 | Whilst missioner in Cambridgeshire — after a five years ' spell in Oxford he began to — read seriously and painstakingly — and , though untutored and without the benefit of lectures , he gained a degree in Classics at Cambridge University . |
| 15 | and er , like Christmas , erm , they have these things on the telly when there 's about , every , every night there 's like a fifteen minutes ' programme , just before the close-down , of like , B B C One . |
| 16 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 17 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 18 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 19 | My parole finishes in nine days and then I start a nine months ' suspended sentence . |
| 20 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 21 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 22 | If only five per cent of car journeys were made by bus or train instead it would save over a quarter of a million tonnes ' worth of pollutant each year . |
| 23 | In the El Niño event of 1982–83 , 200 000 square km of Argentina was flooded and Peru lost a million dollars ' worth of potatoes , while Indonesia , Australia , and southern Africa experienced devastating drought . |
| 24 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 25 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 26 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 27 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 28 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 29 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 30 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |