Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 2 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |
| 3 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 4 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 5 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 6 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 7 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 8 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 9 | could you put me in touch ? ’ 'Sorry he 'll be back from America in a few days ' bingo . |
| 10 | He also agrees to my request to take Fairfax on board as historical adviser and fixes a meeting in London in a few weeks to review progress . |
| 11 | An Ajdabiya shaikh needed in Hawari could fly there from Benghazi in a few hours . |
| 12 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
| 13 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 14 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
| 15 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 16 | The Starsearch returns to Derry in a few weeks , and those who missed out on this occasion are strongly urged to re-enter . |
| 17 | She 'd get to California in a few days . |
| 18 | The accused man Paul Beechey was driven into the magistrates court at Didcot in an unmarked police car . |
| 19 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 20 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |