Example sentences of "four [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike most birdwatchers , I am lucky enough to live less than four hours ' drive from their regular winter home — a wildfowl marsh constructed by one of the Maharajahs of Bharatpur . |
| 2 | ‘ The hardest part of the ‘ Challenge ’ was standing at the wheel in the cockpit after only four hours ' sleep , feeling like you were being bombarded by cannons firing icy water . |
| 3 | Blanche looked a little ragged at the edges , her sergeant noted indulgently , but was otherwise unmarked by just four hours ' sleep the night before . |
| 4 | From there , he took a direct flight to Larnaca , Cyprus , and after four hours ' sleep , caught the midnight ferry to Jounieh . |
| 5 | You ca n't think clearly on four hours ' sleep . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 7 | Which you had , the government , the government or building firms had to guarantee you forty four hours ' payment f of wages , forty four hours guaranteed and you had to get that whether you were working or not . |
| 8 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 9 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |
| 10 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 11 | In four hours ' time there will come a roar like an emergency pitstop at Silverstone , and the next feed will be due . |
| 12 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 13 | Area Health Authority to apply on four hours ' notice to all parties ( such notice to be sufficiently given by telephone ) to vary or discharge this injunction . |
| 14 | At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants . |
| 15 | Four hours ' ride finds you at ruins of the Mayan civilisation where the cousins of the Aztecs built jungle pyramids to worship their gods . |
| 16 | In paper mills the base for wage calculation was a measure of output judged to occupy eight hours , but paper makers generally worked another four hours ' overtime . |
| 17 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 18 | At Glengall Bridge — four minutes ' walk south of Thames Quay — WIU has leased four floors in Bellerive House , part of a 170,000 sq ft development by BICC and London & Edinburgh Trust , for its business courses . |
| 19 | The leader needs some four minutes ' advance to feel safe . |
| 20 | So I 'll ask you a question in about er , three or four minutes ' time , which could result in you 're going out next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 21 | It would also leave India with no budgetary provision ( a continuing resolution , to allow four months ' expenditure after the current financial year end on March 31 , had been introduced on March 4 after the Congress ( I ) had in late February denied Shekhar 's government its backing for a full budget bill — ibid . ) . |
| 22 | She had n't wanted to take the four months ' pay from Nicolo , but he 'd been coldly adamant . |
| 23 | Original entrance arches , terraces , ponds , King Charles ' Walk , a reminder of Charles I 's four months ' imprisonment here after his defeat in the Civil War . |
| 24 | A Spanish senator , Enrique Bolín Peres Argemi , was sentenced on Sept. 1 , 1989 , in Gibraltar to four months ' imprisonment for cocaine possession . |
| 25 | Following the establishment of a committee to review the Constitution and to prepare for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 36842 ] , the President 's office announced on Nov. 6 that a six-member committee had been set up ; the committee 's members included a leading human rights lawyer , Ismail Ali Jumaale , released from prison on Oct. 25 after four months ' detention . |
| 26 | When war broke out he had to endure four months ' internment as an enemy alien . |
| 27 | My father was due four months ' leave and this they spent at Beachley , his attractive house near Chepstow at the mouth of the Severn . |
| 28 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 29 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 30 | This lending ceiling was reinforced by a further statement by the Bank in November 1968 which gave the banks four months ' notice to reduce their lending to 98 per cent of the mid November 1967 level . |