Example sentences of "nine [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were assisted by the referee , Clive Norling , who added on nine minutes ' injury time despite the lack of an injury stoppage worth the name . |
| 2 | However , some last-ditch defence by Karpov enabled him to reach a drawn rook and pawn endgame after 94 moves and a total of nine hours ' and 20 minutes ' play . |
| 3 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 4 | JAGUAR car workers are to put in nine hours ' overtime each week to complete the biggest single car order in the company 's history . |
| 5 | A further interesting finding was that one in three chairmen , one in nine employers ' representatives and one in seven employees ' representatives were also justices of the peace or held similar ‘ judicial or semi-judicial office ’ such as that of coroner . |
| 6 | With an average of nine months ' notice , the timber trade — buying on its own responsibility — could procure , at a lower average price per standard than is being paid at present , enough timber for all the houses that the building industry can build . |
| 7 | In January 1987 he was sentenced to five years and nine months ' imprisonment at Belfast Crown Court for possessing firearms in suspicious circumstances and for possessing petrol bombs . |
| 8 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 9 | Training involves a two-year residential course which leads to the Nursery Nursing Examination Board diploma , followed by nine months ' probation with a family . |
| 10 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 11 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 12 | Sentence : two years and nine months ' imprisonment and recommended for deportation . |
| 13 | My parole finishes in nine days and then I start a nine months ' suspended sentence . |
| 14 | A pilot study at St George 's Hospital in London has suggested that quadruple treatment with rifampicin , ethambutol , isoniazid , and pyrazinamide or clofazamine may be of value , with 10 of 20 patients remaining in remission after nine months ' treatment . |
| 15 | Er we will get on to the er the press and people , to really get out to the people , to save our , it 's no good saying , in nine months ' time , why was n't there something done , for our hospitals ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These one-year degrees are awarded on the basis of written examination after nine months ' coursework and the submission and examination of a dissertation . |
| 18 | Er the the study actually lasted two months but the er the behaviour continued at ninety p at ninety percent for nine months ' follow up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Neil Ormerod , 19 , from Bromsgrove , was also sentenced to nine months ' detention . |
| 21 | So , the network can simultaneously represent a single reader 's conception of nine different texts , or nine readers ' different reactions to the same text . |
| 22 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
| 23 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 24 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 25 | The dam , completed in 1890 after nine years ' work , is 390yds long and 127′ thick at the base . |
| 26 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 27 | It is not yet clear whether this will take into account the index-linked charge of $5 million per annum which the State is currently paying to house the paintings in Madrid , an agreement due to expire in nine years ' time . |
| 28 | After all , I had nine years ' experience in special education . |
| 29 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 30 | It was Gwynne who in 1696 proposed the introduction of a loyal association , in response to revelations about the assassination plot , and who in 1698 led the inquiry into clandestine trade with France during the nine years ' war . |