Example sentences of "two [noun] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |
| 2 | When tested after two hours ' extra sleep , subjects performed worse on a vigilance task , although not significantly worse on a calculation task . |
| 3 | I was staying with a Filipino family on Mindanao , one of the southernmost of the 7,000 Philippine islands , two hours ' flying time from Manila , in a place called Dapitan City in the province of Zamboanga del Norte . |
| 4 | Faced with that band of silent men , the two riders ' headlong rush veered and slowed , and one of them dropped to a loiter . |
| 5 | In January 1919 , the superintendent-nurse , Miss Price , returned to duty after two months ' sick leave ( which had started on Armistice Day ) . |
| 6 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 7 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 8 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 9 | The snub has sparked fears that the Clinton administration is about to put the two countries ' special relationship on hold in retaliation for Tory support of George Bush in the presidential campaign . |
| 10 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |
| 11 | In an interspecies cross like the mule one would always expect marked differences between the two parents ' white cell antigens , and on the analogy with humans , habitual abortions should be rare . |
| 12 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 13 | Two weeks ' paid leave immediately before the birth . |
| 14 | Prior to going to BATUS , the battlegroups carried out two weeks ' preparatory training in the Soltau Training Area in northern Germany . |
| 15 | Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks ' hard labour . |
| 16 | 420 ( 55% ) responders were working , and of these 235 ( 56% ) had less than two weeks ' sick leave a year . |
| 17 | Over half ( 235 , 56% ) of 419 employed adults with cystic fibrosis had had less than two weeks ' sick leave in the previous year , and 34% ( 144 ) had had less than 1 week . |
| 18 | In Rostock where 32 arrests had been made in connexion with the August violence , one man was sentenced on Sept.10 to nine months ' imprisonment , while on Sept.15 one youth was put on probation for a year and another was sentenced to two weeks ' juvenile detention . |
| 19 | Not only is this statement admissible in tribunal proceedings , but unreasonable refusal to provide such a statement renders the employer , on the application of the employee to a tribunal , liable to a penalty payable to the employee of a sum equal to two weeks ' gross pay . |
| 20 | A graduate will be recognized as a licentiate member and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience . |
| 21 | Graduates with appropriate subject profiles will be recognized as licentiate members and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience . |
| 22 | For successful students who possess at least two years ' relevant experience and have been members of the Institute for at least two years , the Banking Certificate leads to a qualification in its own right — the Cert . |
| 23 | Intended for middle managers with at least two years ' relevant experience it is based on distance learning course and assessment materials which can be integrated with the individual 's work-place activities , thereby minimising career disruptions and maximising the benefits to employee and employer alike . |
| 24 | We will guarantee every child access to two years ' preschool education with a choice of preschool provision . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 26 | Eligibility for payments is now restricted to workers under the age of 65 who have a minimum of two years ' full-time service since the age of 18 . |
| 27 | Every able-bodied male was liable for conscription , from the age of 17 , for two years ' full-time training in the infantry , three in the cavalry or horse artillery . |
| 28 | PhD candidates with a Masters qualification have to complete a minimum of two years ' full-time study |
| 29 | Protection against unfair dismissal is available only to employees with two years ' continuous service ; anyone dismissed before then has no recourse to an industrial tribunal — |
| 30 | The Secretary of State said that he would note my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan 's suggestion that the employment protection aspects of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 be extended to cover those TA members have less than two years ' continuous employment . |