Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 2 | She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ? |
| 3 | Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade . |
| 4 | An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week . |
| 5 | When he spoke again , it was in little more than a whisper . |
| 6 | She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’ |
| 7 | In little more than a decade , its operating systems have won dominance in the personal-computer industry . |
| 8 | Father had said Cornwall might be different and in little more than an hour , how different it was . |
| 9 | ‘ You — you want me to — to live with you , Felipe ? ’ she asked in little more than a whisper . |
| 10 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 11 | Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year . |
| 12 | However , still in 2001 those aged over 85 will still constitute only 17 in each thousand of total population . |
| 13 | The stated aim of the programme was ‘ to improve the quality of mathematics teaching and to develop in each participating country a nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics and capable of undertaking improvement of Mathematics curriculum ’ . |
| 14 | lists in an appendix the prospective purchasers , if any , already identified in each participating member 's country |
| 15 | Reference to our theory as outlined in an earlier section of this chapter would suggest that the next most important item to be isolated in an account is the set of rules regarded as operative in each distinct situation . |
| 16 | This argument assumes that the amount of electricity consumed in each final quarter is the same and that the price per unit of electricity is the same . |
| 17 | 4.3.2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 4.3.1 , the total claim made by each Non-academic Party in each financial year of the Project shall not exceed the amounts set out in the Grant Offer Letter , unless agreed otherwise by the Lead Organization and by IEATP . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 19 | Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists . |
| 20 | The system admits of variations , but usually requires the exclusion of the candidate having the fewest votes in each successive count . |
| 21 | Those who secure the fewest votes in each successive count are eliminated , and votes originally given to them are transferred as in a full-scale STV election . |
| 22 | The one would propose clever trick after clever trick to beat the Heisenberg relation , whilst the other would show with equal persistence that further thought revealed a flaw in each successive suggestion . |
| 23 | The material retained in each successive sieve is emptied in turn on to a sheet of glazed paper , the sieve tapped gently in a direction diagonal to the meshes and swept with appropriate sieve brushes ( camel hair for fine apertures , brass for coarse screens ) to dislodge particles which have become firmly held . |
| 24 | None the less , some increase in fees ( and in general living costs ) in each successive year of your course should be expected . |
| 25 | wheeling current in each winding . |
| 26 | Although in each one Ayesha is engaged in military as well as emotional conflicts , the sequence of events is suspended on endless dialogue as Ayesha defines or defends her amorphous philosophy . |
| 27 | Number one what is the point being made in each one point , even if it 's a cartoon that there will be a point of some sort . |
| 28 | There are three categories with three prizes in each one of £100 or a free place on the Arvon Foundation writing course of your choice , £50 and £25 . |
| 29 | I hope so , I 've got twenty out of twenty so far I have to do a spell test each day with twenty in , with twenty in each one |
| 30 | I was mentioning to Chris before you know she had a hell of a job to get these joints out here cos they 've got three dowels in each one |