Example sentences of "four [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This report was the result of four months ' research , including material relating to Britain , Belgium , South Africa , Canada and the US , and noted that the IDA 's and the IIRS 's ‘ complacent attitude ’ towards asbestos was not shared by many eminent bodies throughout the world and that there was movement towards the phasing out of asbestos . |
| 32 | The Admiral who had been appointed as the boss of Playboy UK got a golden handshake of nearly £12 million for four months ' tenure as the firm was taken over . |
| 33 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 34 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 35 | Although Gordon is English , Smith is not concerned about the attendant problems of UEFA 's ‘ four foreigners ' rule . |
| 36 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 37 | He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively . |
| 38 | His suite would probably cost nearer four weeks ' salary than two . |
| 39 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
| 40 | Five patients had experienced symptoms suggestive of cow 's milk allergy ( urticaria ( one ) , loose stools ( one ) , vomiting ( two ) , diarrhoea ( one ) ) and were admitted for diagnostic milk challenge after four weeks ' milk elimination . |
| 41 | For example , many people have four weeks ' holiday a year , but not many people can take that four weeks all in one go , there are usually restrictions that you can only take maybe a maximum of two weeks . |
| 42 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 43 | And we have four weeks ' holiday at August . |
| 44 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 45 | I said , I 've , I 've got four weeks ' holiday before . |
| 46 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 47 | Delayed duodenal ulcer healing is associated with multiple factors whose effect is cumulative ; for patients with two or more of five easily identified risk factors , more than four weeks ' treatment with a histamine H 2 receptor antagonist is required to achieve ulcer healing . |
| 48 | Median serum concentrations of IGF-I increased by 0.38 U/ml after four weeks ' treatment ( 0.54–0.92 U/ml ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 49 | Mean energy intake ( Table III ) was not significantly different in the two groups before treatment , increased in both groups after four weeks ' treatment , and was maintained in the steroid treated group but not in the group treated with the elemental diet after 13 weeks . |
| 50 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 51 | If , in addition to finding a tenant , the agency is managing the let , you should be paid every month , less a tenant-finding fee of between two and four weeks ' rent . |
| 52 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 53 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
| 54 | In four weeks ' time the regiment moves from peacekeeping with the United Nations to peacekeeping by deterrent in West Germany . |
| 55 | Insurance bosses will press ahead with banning all claims for bomb damage of more than £100,000 from four weeks ' time . |
| 56 | We were virtually aiming for the impossible : to launch the revamped Friends of John McCarthy complete with campaign logo , notepaper and T-shirts , by our target date of 17 February , in four weeks ' time . |
| 57 | What will its price be in four weeks ' time if interest rates remain unchanged ? |
| 58 | But despite the ‘ scariest moment ’ of his life , James said he would be back in action in four weeks ' time at the Dundrod 150 . |
| 59 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 60 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |