Example sentences of "of [num] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 3 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 4 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 5 | A sentence of 120 hours ' community service on the attacker yesterday was condemned by Nicola 's mother Sue . |
| 6 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 7 | Yet judging from the book , the case material lacks an essential element of realism , in spite of 30 years ' development and three editions . |
| 8 | Amid the tumult of Tiananmen Square , the end of 30 years ' estrangement between the world 's great Communist powers went almost forgotten . |
| 9 | The Court ruled by 11 votes to two that the offence had been abolished by presidential decree in 1986 — when Aquino dismantled much of the coercive apparatus of former President Ferdinand Marcos shortly after taking power — but stated that the government could file charges of " simple rebellion " , a lesser offence which carried a lighter penalty of 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | He was sentenced to a total of 12 months ' imprisonment for the summary and either way offences and the suspended sentence was activated consecutively . |
| 11 | Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 allowed a magistrates ' court to pass an aggregate of 12 months ' imprisonment for two or more either way offences . |
| 12 | It is now clearly established that a juvenile who pleads guilty to an offence or series of offences for which the maximum term of custody is a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution should normally receive an appropriate discount to reflect his plea , subject to the general principles governing the award of a discount . |
| 13 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 14 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 15 | The appellant had been sentenced to a term of detention which took effect as a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution , and the Court 's powers were limited to declaring that that was the effect of the sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 16 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 17 | Courses are generally of 12 months ' duration by full-time study . |
| 18 | Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net . |
| 19 | He met his collaborator of forty years ' standing Dr Annegrit Schmitt ( now his wife ) when she presented her thesis to the Graphische Sammlung in 1952 . |
| 20 | 2 passages will be dictated at each speed — one of 3 minutes and one of 2 minutes ' duration . |
| 21 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 22 | Apparently even if I was within the time limit of twenty-eight weeks ' pregnancy — which of course I 'm not — I could n't possibly stand an eight-hour flight ; I 've got a touch of toxaemia — ’ |
| 23 | His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days ' detention for absence without leave . |
| 24 | The administration and financing of 842 Magistrates ' courts , presided over by about 18,500 lay justices of the peace , assisted by clerks who were mostly full-time and salaried , was in the hands of local Magistrates ' courts committees , with the aid of a grant from the Home Office . |
| 25 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 26 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 27 | Earned PhD in agricultural science , preferably in plant breeding or agronomy ; minimum of 10 years ' experience in agricultural research and training ; three years ' experience working in a multidisciplinary team in a developing country , international organisation , or bilateral program ; management experience ; ability to work collaboratively with scientists of different disciplines and nationalities . |
| 28 | Due to be sentenced on Feb. 7 , 1992 , Keating faced a maximum penalty of 10 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 29 | Although by rights she was not eligible , Mozart not having fulfilled his qualifying period of 10 years ' court service , the emperor was inclined to be generous . |
| 30 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine has taken no action against 56 of the 79 English waste disposal authorities which have failed to fulfil their legal obligation of 10 years ' standing to draw up plans for waste disposal . |