Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 2 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 3 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 4 | In those days , we had n't got chromium buttons — I had gone home soaked to the skin , after eight hours ' rain , dried the stuff and was coming out next morning . |
| 5 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 6 | Last year Grundig promised to launch an ‘ autoreverse ’ machine , to give eight hours ' continuous recording on a V2000 cassette , but it never appeared . |
| 7 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 8 | For eight hours ' sleep , I 'd knock off God and hang the frame on Jesus . |
| 9 | Rather a dreary , grey looking place not very eye catching to me but that did n't matter the next eight hours ' driving did . |
| 10 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 11 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 12 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 13 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 14 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 15 | Erm , I go through stages , normally I need eight hours ' sleep , always eight hours ' sleep , but I do n't really sleep in . |
| 16 | Erm , I go through stages , normally I need eight hours ' sleep , always eight hours ' sleep , but I do n't really sleep in . |
| 17 | After three-and-a-half hours ' deliberation , the jury awarded Mrs Swami , aged 49 , of Kingsbury , north-west London , £240,000 for the assaults , and £60,000 for false imprisonment . |
| 18 | The 1925 Widows ' , Orphans ' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act was thus the product of several impulses — desire by the advocates of 1924 ‘ new Conservatism ’ ( especially Neville Chamberlain ) to forge a specifically Conservative brand of social reform in the new post-1918 conditions of virtual mass democracy , the mothers ' pensions challenge by Labour , the ‘ all-in insurance ’ activity within Whitehall in 1923–4 ( represented by the Anderson and Watson Committees ) , and the first glimmerings of realization that better pensions might encourage retirement and reduce the unemployment statistics . |
| 19 | Antonen , 54 , of Kidlington , Oxon , admitted drink-driving and was ordered to do 180 hours ' community service and banned for three years . |
| 20 | Fripp , 25 , of King George Road , Ware , who admitted burglary and two charges of handling , was sentenced to 180 hours ' community service . |
| 21 | Here , they can combine a professional career with the joys of rural living : Richard 's practice as a chartered surveyor is an easy eight minutes ' drive away , just long enough to ‘ listen to the traffic reports and think of all those people on the M25 ! ’ |
| 22 | A sentence of 120 hours ' community service on the attacker yesterday was condemned by Nicola 's mother Sue . |
| 23 | The course provides 120 hours ' work — about 8 hours per unit . |
| 24 | Each was ordered to do 120 hours ' community service and pay £850 costs . |
| 25 | She was sentenced to 120 hours ' unpaid community work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 850 Gibbons ' blazing glories |
| 28 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 29 | Detractors of what has been achieved so far in Docklands , 10 years after the LDDC 's inception , fail to remember that there is one other artery into the area that will have a positive effect on commercial property : the underground road tunnel known as the Limehouse Link , which is expected to open in about eight months ' time , eliminating tedious congestion at Tower Bridge and Wapping . |
| 30 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |