Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 2 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 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 | Philip Calvert , an A-level student at Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College , Guisborough , was two-hundredths of a second inside the senior boys ' qualifying time in the 800 metres , clocking 1 min 54.8 . |
| 5 | IBM will keep its retirement bridge , which allows employees that are within five years of retirement to take unpaid leave until they 're eligible to retire with full benefits , but it will no longer provide benefits during the leave , or include employees ' unpaid time in any of its length of service benefits . |