Example sentences of "four [noun] ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , volunteers in the CAB were required to commit themselves to four hours ' voluntary service per week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 4 | Other parts of the directive — including a minimum of four weeks ' paid leave — apply to everyone . |
| 5 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 6 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 7 | Just over a year later , already a trained weaver , he left to join another company for eight years before returning to complete thirty four years ' continuous service . |
| 8 | After four years ' hard labour , Xerox Corp is understood to have given up on its Ventura Software Inc desktop publishing software business and put the San Diego company on the block . |
| 9 | After almost four years ' hard study in addition to her job , Sarah Blackburn of group internal audit was congratulated on May 26 by David Quarmby , joint managing director , on attaining an MBA . |
| 10 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |