Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end technology triumphed over brute strength and John Powell stormed over the finish line to take the chequered flag in a record 44 minutes . |
| 2 | I was in the hotel room next door to Baghetti at Rheims that year and yet I could n't find his name to score a point in a quiz 30 years later ! |
| 3 | In 1985 , a girl suffered serious burns following an explosion in a house 50 metres from a landfill in North Yorkshire . |
| 4 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 5 | Her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo in a town eight miles away . |
| 6 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 7 | We crossed the Sacramento on the bleached bones of an old dead pine and pitched camp in a meadow 6,000 feet above sea level , under the summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 8 | The guide , who helped save Prince Charles 's life in an avalanche four years ago , dropped them and told the duchess : ‘ You can rely on me . ’ |
| 9 | He set off again , his face now twisted in pain , and flung the bag to an accomplice in an alley twenty yards further on . |
| 10 | We finally settled for a modern house in a village three miles away , where I am still living . |
| 11 | Barnes could face his England namesake John in the Coca-Cola Cup fourth round replay at Selhurst Park after just 22 minutes of first-team action with Palace in a nightmare 15 months blighted by knee injuries . |
| 12 | In Goldman v. Hargrave , a redgum tree on the defendant 's land was struck by lightning and caught fire in a fork eighty feet above ground . |