Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |
| 2 | After six months ' trial the commissioners appointed Mitchell general inspector and superintendent of the Highland roads and bridges , a post he held for almost forty years . |
| 3 | The AFRC also reduced to 10 years ' imprisonment the life sentences of three others . |
| 4 | And during the bitter 1984 miners ' strike the cranes were kept busy unloading imports of Australian coal for power stations . |
| 5 | After three years ' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed . |
| 6 | It was also agreed to review in three years ' time the entire stock of debt to the Paris Club governments , estimated at the end of 1990 to comprise $5,700 million of the total external debt of $10,500 million . |
| 7 | It was outlined in the Housing Act ( 1980 ) , which gave council tenants with three years ' residence the right to buy their properties at a substantial discount . |
| 8 | In ten years ' time the Esquire piece will be required reading for any journalist or student researching one of the few creative talents in the cinema today . |
| 9 | In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . " |
| 10 | After no more than five or ten seconds ' pause the door shivered under a hard kick , and then another . |
| 11 | Blanche looked a little ragged at the edges , her sergeant noted indulgently , but was otherwise unmarked by just four hours ' sleep the night before . |
| 12 | In two months ' time the slopes would be a vista of hazy blue . |
| 13 | After two weeks ' work the catapult was finally ready . |
| 14 | In four weeks ' time the regiment moves from peacekeeping with the United Nations to peacekeeping by deterrent in West Germany . |
| 15 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 16 | I said tentatively , ‘ Suppose in two years ' time the situation was different ? ’ |
| 17 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |