Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
2 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
3 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
4 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
5 | The Supreme Court in a nine votes to seven ruling in mid-July appointed Judge Adolfo Bañados to rule on whether to re-open the case of Orlando Letelier , an ambassador to the United States under the regime of Salvador Allende , who was murdered in Washington in 1976 [ see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ] . |
6 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |