Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HANS Wagenknecht , 24 , is a physics student from Germany who will be looking for work in a few years . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 3 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 4 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 5 | Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) . |
| 6 | There are enough accounts of Blenheim operations to put things into historical perspective , while the detailed description of the restoration project enables one to understand how mortified all felt when human error undid years of endeavour in a few seconds . |
| 7 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 8 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 9 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 10 | The ready availability of a screening questionnaire that mothers at risk can complete under supervision in a few minutes is potentially useful , but only if health workers and others can rise to the needs of depressed mothers . |
| 11 | There are similar problems with percussion in the latter stages of the Bernstein . |
| 12 | So get your orders in well in advance for when the putter goes into production in a few months ' time … . |
| 13 | Parvis Yousefi could be ordered to leave his home in Southfield Crescent , Norton , Stockton , when he becomes eligible for parole in a few months ' time . |
| 14 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 15 | It was always disappointing to sight the Land Rover and anticipate being in camp in a few minutes and then have an hour to walk . |
| 16 | DEC also subcontracted the London-based software house Transvik Ltd which had previously developed the software for the Nordex exchange in the City of London ; it was its foundation on the pound sterling that caused the failure of the bond transaction , but contrary to local press reports , the system did not crash and an update to overcome the problem should be in place in a few weeks time . |
| 17 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 18 | However , there was also a steep fall in sterling in the latter months of 1992 , which caused the sterling expression of our predominantly US dollar debt to rise by £2.0 billion . |
| 19 | I was due in court in a few days to begin divorce proceedings and the threat of Johnny ‘ B ’ helped to dilute the worry . |
| 20 | It comes in rust in the same sizes as the jacket ( above ) . |
| 21 | Although long-lasting and generally reliable , their musical shortcomings were obvious and none have been manufactured since 1980 , although they are still in use in a few churches . |
| 22 | Well let mummy fasten your shoes first and Grant 'll be in from school in a few minutes . |
| 23 | Grant 'll be in from school in a few minutes . |
| 24 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 25 | Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths . |
| 26 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 27 | If such areas were damaged beyond recall in the several millennia from 4000 BC onwards , why were all the areas cleared in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages not so affected ? |
| 28 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
| 29 | I asked Kim to put down on paper in a few sentences how she felt about her new shape . |
| 30 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |