Example sentences of "in [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tate , an ambitious poet whose few irreplaceable poems were yet to come , was by 1927 in animated correspondence with two poets , Yvor Winters ( 1900–1968 ) and Hart Crane ( 1899-1932 ) , who were at one , if in little else , in their certainty that Eliot 's fame and Eliot 's precedent were bad news for American poetry . |
| 2 | In literature , if in little else , Britain was again a world power . |
| 3 | United in adversity , if in little else . |
| 4 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |
| 5 | Instead , he lost 9-1 , 9-0 , 10-9 , and all three encounters were over in little more than two hours . |
| 6 | And there 's row upon row of the string-making machines themselves — rather like lightweight industrial lathes , but each one capable of turning out one or two wound strings in little more than ten seconds . |
| 7 | Yet , if he receives full parole , in little more than two years Courtney will be free . |
| 8 | The last nine West Indian wickets fell for 76 in little more than two hours with Warne grabbing 7-21 from his final 14.4 overs . |
| 9 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 10 | From being the Mecca of young Chinese who wished to ‘ awaken ’ their nation , Japan had , in little more than two decades , become an aggressor to be kept at bay . |
| 11 | The world of PCs is one of rapid change and technological improvement , having evolved from nothing to its current state in little more than 12 years . |
| 12 | The speed of document production is extremely impressive ; I have assembled and printed a 280-page directory consisting of over 40 individual text files in little more than two hours from start to finish using this approach . |
| 13 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 14 | So I would n't Yes I 'd accept that probably er a tick in each probably would er would be a reasonable assumption . |
| 15 | But even when both eyes are painted within the normal convention he makes the expression in each subtly different , as if to express the duality in his subject . |
| 16 | Your leak 's somewhere aft , is n't it ? … you 've got all four pumps working , I take it … one in each well ? " |
| 17 | Although you may normally take the view that there is never a best time for spending money , retirement planning is different in that sooner or later you will need , or want , to make certain purchases — or pay off outstanding commitments , such as a mortgage . |
| 18 | Well I , I can understand er his , his point of view in that firstly he 's saying quite correctly , that this tragedy was no one person 's fault . |
| 19 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 20 | Mr Lewis apart , however , the other guests , perhaps through awe , perhaps through a sense of antagonism , kept a wary distance from M. Dupont , a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere , and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days . |
| 21 | A joint venture goes further than co-operation , in that generally a new business entity is created , but falls short of a full merger of the parents , who remain independent . |
| 22 | I think you 'll be going to bed in that soon and if you mess it up then you 'll never sleep . |
| 23 | Even in that dead calm , the ladies turned green with sea-sickness . |
| 24 | Cassie knew of only one stone that flashed in that particularly satisfying way . |
| 25 | In that particularly hot climate , it is quite often yellow . |
| 26 | But do n't starve your customers in the process — there 's no profit in that either . |
| 27 | Not interested in that either . |
| 28 | Look at at one time the and you had er well you 've got Johnnie Walkers but there are not as many works in that either . |
| 29 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 30 | With hands across the world , join also in that well loved song , AULD LANG SYNE . |