Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 2 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 3 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 4 | I learned from local hoteliers the staggering statistics that in less than a decade , the number of hotel rooms nearby had increased from 70 to 800 . |
| 5 | Why allowed three minutes for , but I might extend that to three and a quarter , I think , if the time goes well . |