Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 2 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 3 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 4 | She first began working in the winding department and then in the Dye House before her thirteen years ' as a cleaner . |
| 5 | As a mark of her popularity , Betty Law had a tremendous farewell when she retired from Douglas Reyburn on 12th September after 45 years ' of unbroken service . |
| 6 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 7 | There is no long term advantage of three months ' over one month 's treatment . |
| 8 | Archie Watson retired in early July after thirty three years ' as a weaver . |
| 9 | Margaret Gibson , Maintenance Cleaner , retired at the end of April after twenty three years ' with the company . |
| 10 | Depending on the system , a disc can contain from thirty to sixty minutes ' of moving pictures on each side . |
| 11 | Look for Revlon 's Innerlash Mascara ( £9.50 ) or Cil 18 Heures ' from Bourjois ( £3.79 ) which are both waterproof but easy to remove or go for the super , long-lasting Marathon Mascara ( £2.81 ) from Cover Girl which will need specific waterproof make-up remover . |
| 12 | Until now they have claimed it is a world away from the horrors just five hours ' down the road in Miami — so chillingly portrayed in the TV series Miami Vice . |
| 13 | No , I can remember forty five minutes ' worth no problem , oh Tony er Paul get erm a bowl , erm , a dish , a dish , do n't put it ah |
| 14 | All 6,200 dockworkers ' at Klong Toey , Bangkok 's port and the busiest in Thailand , went on strike on Jan. 30 , 1990 , to protest against a government plan to privatize a new deep-sea container port at Laem Chabang , on the eastern seaboard development area , which was due to begin operations in 1991 . |
| 15 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 16 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 17 | At a mid-point in the novel there occurs McClintoch 's complaint that people are divided into the ‘ attractive ’ and the ‘ unattractive ’ , rather as , according to Disraeli , as Graham duly notes , Victorian England was divided into the two nations ' of rich and poor . |
| 18 | The TCCB meet two weeks ' after today 's final to decide on what further punishment can be meted out to Lamb on top of a two-match ban and threat of expulsion from the England dressing-room . |
| 19 | On Dec. 1 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from 20 years ' to 10 years ' hard labour . |