Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outdoor centre staff given eight days ' warning on jobs |
| 2 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 3 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 4 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 5 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 6 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 7 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 8 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 9 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 10 | Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites . |
| 11 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 12 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 13 | Roy has held many management positions and has 36 years ' experience in carpets . |
| 14 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 15 | Despite its own financial woes , IBM is expected to provide 60 days ' redundancy pay for each of the employees . |
| 16 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 17 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 18 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 19 | able to do my job , I might need thirty days ' training . |
| 20 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |
| 21 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 22 | Project 2 contains 2½ hours ' music . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's linked with business , with the fluctuations of the stock exchange , ’ explains Paul Smith , who has 20 years ' experience of designing for men . |
| 24 | National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists . |
| 25 | Project 1 contains 1½ hours ' music . |
| 26 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 27 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 28 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |
| 29 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 30 | The length of that sort of letter hardly matters — one sentence might give six months ' nourishment , or a paragraph may become food for reflection . |