Example sentences of "three [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the three groups ' future no longer looks so bright . |
| 2 | Anna checked her stocklist for the shelf allocation for the poppadoms ( plain , spiced , garlic and chilli , ready-cooked ) with all the slick professionalism of three hours ' experience . |
| 3 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 4 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 5 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 6 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
| 7 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 8 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 9 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
| 10 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 11 | The next morning , three hours ' sailing away from the Isle of Pines , the ship received a cable : permission to disembark had not yet been confirmed . |
| 12 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 13 | Juniors must be paid appropriately for the hours that they work : if they are getting only three hours ' rest at night they are working the equivalent of a partial shift and should be paid accordingly . |
| 14 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 15 | is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours . |
| 16 | One was the disk erm , which actually held about erm , three hours ' worth of conversations straight from the corpus er banking , er composition . |
| 17 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 18 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 19 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 20 | By the time Charlie and Tommy climbed through the ropes , Tommy had made it clear to his friend that he hoped to get away with three minutes ' shadow-boxing . |
| 21 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 22 | I will do you … any embassage … rather than hold three words ' conference with this harpy . |
| 23 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 25 | Puritans also viewed breaches of traditional , Christian sexual morality in a serious light ; in 1650 , the Rump Parliament passed an Adultery Act , which sought to punish those convicted of fornication with three months ' imprisonment , and those found guilty of adultery with death . |
| 26 | In one a term of three months ' imprisonment was imposed in respect of much publicised suggestions by a trade union official that a particular decision had been reached only because of pressure exerted by a demonstrating rank and file . |
| 27 | He was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently , suspended for two years , and ordered to pay compensation in the total sum of £211.25 . |
| 28 | On each of the six counts on which he was convicted he was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on each count concurrent , suspended for two years . |
| 29 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 30 | He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively . |