Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 2 | As with the merger in 1977 between the then Institute of Bankers and the Savings Banks Institute , the latest partnership will in a few years ' time look entirely natural . |
| 3 | and if you can see our practice nurse in a few weeks |
| 4 | Yes , we 've got Maidenhead to come down here , a home game in a few weeks time , so obviously that will be quite an interesting game . |
| 5 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 6 | A 1920s shop experience in a fully-furnished Valleys general store of the period |
| 7 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 8 | We like to concentrate on the pop stuff in a few tracks and indulge in the more experimental stuff with the rest . ’ |
| 9 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 10 | You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ? |
| 11 | He 'll be in a walking plaster in a few days . |
| 12 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 13 | We shall have Bryan Robson and Lee Sharpe mush fitter in a few weeks when they have had more games . ’ |
| 14 | I understand that the Secretary of State for the Environment is to develop the concept of ’ Tarzan 's folly ’ at a London Weekend Television seminar in a few weeks ' time , but the right place to develop the concept is on the Floor of the House . |
| 15 | Increasingly , it has been necessary to think in terms of creating our own learning environment in a separate Women 's Education Centre in which men as students , teachers or visiting authorities are unwelcome and in which women act independently for themselves . |
| 16 | She 's due to have a hip replacement operation in a few weeks time . |
| 17 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 18 | I vote that this a good point other activities for the County Council in a few years that you that you will find er people anxious to support , thank you gentlemen |
| 19 | But the thing is I 've got an integration exam in a few weeks popping up |
| 20 | " You 'll have the application form in a few days as soon as I can get it processed . " |
| 21 | This gives a boost-regulated top speed of 145mph and 0–60mph acceleration in a claimed 6.6secs . |
| 22 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 23 | We shall be continuing our more detailed look at factory shops in a few weeks ' time . |
| 24 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 25 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 26 | Meanwhile a pair of kestrels has produced four young in a disused ventilation pipe in a raw materials store . |
| 27 | Journalists can digest a story from a good press release in a few minutes , while attending a press conference is going to take an hour , not including travelling time . |
| 28 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 29 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 30 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |