Example sentences of "[det] [noun] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8 October : The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh left Heathrow Airport , London this afternoon in a British Airways Tristar for Singapore and Malaysia . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ An Army lorry is due along this road in a few minutes . |
| 5 | I 'll get you some food in a few minutes , but first let's have your shoe and stocking off . ’ |
| 6 | My hon. Friend 's question speaks for itself , and no doubt we shall hear more about such matters in a few minutes . |
| 7 | A saying that conveys much meaning in a few words ; short poem ending in a witty turn of thought . |
| 8 | I shall deal with that point in a few moments . |
| 9 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
| 10 | However , with various groups suggesting police complicity in township violence , many blacks will find little security in a larger police force . |
| 11 | I can see no more reason to doubt but that these causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect , and adapt the form of the fox to catching hares instead of rabbits , than that greyhounds can be improved by selection and careful breeding . |
| 12 | Over two hundred people from Garland Road and Felcourt formed themselves into teams of ten to pit their wits against each other in a trivial pursuits type quiz night . |
| 13 | But I 'll touch on the reason why they do n't need those condition in a few minutes . |
| 14 | And I 'll go into that area in a little bit more detail in a few minutes . |
| 15 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
| 16 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
| 17 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |
| 18 | France still wanted EURATOM more than she wanted a common market , and in September 1956 caused a new crisis in the negotiations , with various demands to ease her own position in a six-power customs union . |