Example sentences of "[noun] ' supply " in BNC.
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1 | Soldiers were required to bring with them three months ' supply of provisions , arms , armour and tools for entrenching and other tasks . |
2 | Elizabeth Arden 's new Ceramide Eyes Time Complex Capsules ( £27.50 for two months ' supply , on sale 3 February ) contain a clear , liquid complex of vitamins E and K , botanical extracts and Ceramide 1 to soothe and smooth the eye area . |
3 | He recalled that the original American commitment was to supply the ROK army with an initial issue of equipment and six months ' supply of spare parts for a total strength of 50,000 . |
4 | For their parting present , before they went off into their futures , they gave Apricot six months ' supply of contraceptive pills . |
5 | Athens ' supply crisis comes against a background of growing concern over diminishing water supplies for the intensely-cultivated Thessaly Plain , where farmers growing EC-supported water-hungry crops are rapidly depleting available resources . |
6 | Note to artists : Because of the overwhelming response we now have several weeks ' supply of pictures for the Gallery page . |
7 | Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched . |
8 | Coke reserves are said to have dwindled to only 700,000 tonnes — two days ' supply . |
9 | He has devised a vitamin and mineral supplement called Ultra-Detoxi for the Nature 's Best brand : £16.50 for 30 days ' supply . |
10 | Sangenic can take about three days ' supply of soiled nappies before it needs emptying . |
11 | It was arranged that he would take a few days ' supply of stoma bags with him and he was given a list of equipment he would require . |
12 | The capacity of these may be several days ' supply , and , with a more or less continuous inflow , the level changes little , and there is a substantial amount of clarification while standing . |
13 | The EEC this month revealed that Europe 's nuclear industry holds a stockpile of some four years ' supply of enriched uranium . |
14 | The French policy is to keep two years ' supply of metals ; the government has admitted to hoarding copper , lead , tungsten and chromium , although it has kept to itself exactly what else the stockpile contains . |
15 | They allow their secretaries to hoard three years supply of sticky tape their personnel people to stock six years ' supply of appraisal forms ( when most managers would do better with blank sheets ) and their engineers to " buffer out " with an indefinite supply of obsolete parts . |
16 | Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites . |
17 | Feeding on an abundant sedentary prey ( several years ' supply may be found within 1 m , ) , there is little stimulus for great activity and dog-whelks may spend long periods in much the same place . |
18 | Further , more local , threats are posed for the sake of a few years ' supply of raw materials . |
19 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
20 | The tremendous increase in oil consumption which accompanied the great burst of accumulation threatened to deplete reserves : by the early seventies considerable disquiet was expressed about the possibility of the ‘ depletion horizon ’ of known reserves being reduced below the conventional level of 25 years ' supply . |
21 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
22 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
23 | The Exchange Telegraph case is perhaps an early example of what , following the dicta of Roxburgh J in Terrapin Ltd v Builders ' Supply Co ( Hayes ) Ltd [ 1960 ] RPC 128 , has come to be called the " springboard " doctrine . |
24 | The supply curve of labour shows the relationship between the real wage and households ' supply of labour and this is a direct relationship : the higher the real wage , the greater the supply of labour . |