Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter contains an overview of the present state of play , and considers the basic requirements for practice in a conventional solicitors ' partnership . |
| 2 | HANS Wagenknecht , 24 , is a physics student from Germany who will be looking for work in a few years . |
| 3 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 5 | The UBP won 23 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly in a general elections on Feb. 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36462 ] . |
| 6 | Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) . |
| 7 | There are enough accounts of Blenheim operations to put things into historical perspective , while the detailed description of the restoration project enables one to understand how mortified all felt when human error undid years of endeavour in a few seconds . |
| 8 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 9 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 10 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 11 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 12 | The ready availability of a screening questionnaire that mothers at risk can complete under supervision in a few minutes is potentially useful , but only if health workers and others can rise to the needs of depressed mothers . |
| 13 | So get your orders in well in advance for when the putter goes into production in a few months ' time … . |
| 14 | Three managers of the German firm Imhausen-Chemie were sentenced by a Mannheim court on Oct. 9 to suspended prison terms ranging from 10 to 16 months for contravention of foreign trade laws in exporting materials to Libya between 1984 and 1988 for use in a chemical weapons factory at Rabta , south of Tripoli . |
| 15 | Parvis Yousefi could be ordered to leave his home in Southfield Crescent , Norton , Stockton , when he becomes eligible for parole in a few months ' time . |
| 16 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 17 | It was always disappointing to sight the Land Rover and anticipate being in camp in a few minutes and then have an hour to walk . |
| 18 | DEC also subcontracted the London-based software house Transvik Ltd which had previously developed the software for the Nordex exchange in the City of London ; it was its foundation on the pound sterling that caused the failure of the bond transaction , but contrary to local press reports , the system did not crash and an update to overcome the problem should be in place in a few weeks time . |
| 19 | I was due in court in a few days to begin divorce proceedings and the threat of Johnny ‘ B ’ helped to dilute the worry . |
| 20 | Although long-lasting and generally reliable , their musical shortcomings were obvious and none have been manufactured since 1980 , although they are still in use in a few churches . |
| 21 | Well let mummy fasten your shoes first and Grant 'll be in from school in a few minutes . |
| 22 | Grant 'll be in from school in a few minutes . |
| 23 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 24 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 25 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 26 | Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths . |
| 27 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
| 28 | Delacroix saw the Bedouin in that light , remarking that : ‘ They are closer to nature in a thousand ways , and so beauty has a share in everything they make . ’ |
| 29 | I asked Kim to put down on paper in a few sentences how she felt about her new shape . |
| 30 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |