Example sentences of "[coord] in [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 2 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 3 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 4 | Many Americans , for example , have individual septic tanks , and in only a few countries , such as England and West Germany , does sewerage dominate sanitation systems . |
| 5 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 6 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |
| 7 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 8 | Naturally , if tinnitus is troublesome , you will seek medical advice , but in only a few cases ( it is suggested less than five per cent ) is there a simple remedy where the cause of tinnitus is in the outer or middle ear . |
| 9 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |