Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] in a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 2 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 3 | Anything struck by a poisoned arrow was paralysed almost immediately and in a few moments was dead . |
| 4 | Haran has suggested however that in a few cases " the intended number is the first of the two " ; 29 but in Job 33.14 and Ps 62.12 , which he cites , it can be maintained much more convincingly that it is the second number that is " intended " or the more precise . |
| 5 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |