Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun sg] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Portland ( 071–388 5111 ) has one week 's half-board £119 , or full-board £125 , departing on Nov 26 ) .
2 Books written in the present day by historians are undoubtedly secondary sources , each representing one person 's view of what happened in the past .
3 It is small wonder that the tree is an endangered species when you consider how many of them must be chopped down to provide one week 's worth of trade press .
4 The first occurred one summer 's day , when he was standing beside a flowering currant bush :
5 He was expected to miss six week 's play .
6 Just get him talking , and then listen , really listen , while old Eddy disinterred one man 's life from the dust of time , and put it together again before his eyes .
7 After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ]
8 Before exercising the power of sale , the trustee for life must give one month 's notice to the trustees stating the price which he has accepted and that this must be the best price available .
9 These difficulties , however , are not simply technical , in the sense of translating one country 's GNP or GDP into terms that will bear comparison with those of other countries .
10 She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time .
11 It should be sufficient to cover one day 's price movement , perhaps between one and five per cent of the face value of the contract .
12 Rented factory space at a rental of £200 per month and paid one month 's rent in advance .
13 Additionally , workstations that meet the criteria , but only run one vendor 's software and are sold exclusively as turnkey systems for one or more applications — such as the Computervision CADDstation — are not included .
14 As a breeder , I give one week 's supply of food with each puppy .
15 TAG creates a specific workshop programme for each production which offers pupils a platform for creative expression while investigating one man 's account of Scottish rural and town life and some of the issues that affected Scotland in the early part of the century .
16 We 've got twenty year 's experience thousands of ads on our on our records .
17 It 's only as their wardrobes become full that the problem arises ; garments that turn out the wrong size are going to fill one person 's space more than another 's .
18 There were just the three of them , with Chamberlain holding one man 's future or the other 's in the palm of his hand .
19 When he returned to college immediately following his discharge , he was lucky to escape with relatively minor punishment — the Master ordered one month 's gating and ninety pages of Greek translation — and was determined not only to drop his more unsuitable friends but , as in his first year at Cambridge , ‘ to write for all the Prizes ’ .
20 There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy .
21 This is the best deal , although it differs from the bank and building society accounts in requiring one month 's notice for withdrawals .
22 This is the best deal , although it differs from the bank and building society accounts in requiring one month 's notice for withdrawals .
23 This is the best deal , although it differs from the bank and building society accounts in requiring one month 's notice for withdrawals .
24 And it only courses one year 's duration maximum one year .
25 It may therefore be that a clause which wholly negates one party 's promise will never be given effect ; even if this is not the case , the court will be extremely reluctant to interpret the clause in that way and clear words will be needed to have that effect .
26 Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it .
27 ‘ The more I followed one character 's life , the more I was led into those of several other characters , ’ he says .
28 ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week .
29 They can create nine man 's morris board on anything and use
30 The object of this book is to give one person 's view on the possible causes of the present situation and to stimulate discussion , hoping that new and , if necessary , radical ideas are created in the spirit that it is better to express a constructive view rather than to passively accept a disagreeable situation with discontent .
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