Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And , oh I 'm talking about this bit now in a minute
2 Get another tape out in a minute Ju !
3 Get another tape out in a minute !
4 Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term .
5 If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ?
6 This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory .
7 Hence the syntactic and semantic relations between words further than this distance away in a piece of text are not considered .
8 I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices .
9 Always wash this rice thoroughly in a sieve under running water otherwise you will get a scum on the water in the pan , causing the rice to boil over on the hob and resulting in an unpleasant appearance when the grains are cooked .
10 There is another lot here in a bag , but this plastic is beginning to go , so I 'll drop it down to you
11 Several times they came across signs of deer , and wild pig , and once , some way off in a thicket , they heard a stag grunt .
12 Doctors have had dozens of enquiries for what family planners claim is another step forward in a woman 's right to choose .
13 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside .
14 Cos if anything happens to that child especially in a fire situation you are liable to criminal er tt etcetera .
15 He and Helga sat at the back of the class , groping each other up in a flurry of smirks and giggles .
16 The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language .
17 Over the following fortnight , during which the Home Office recommends that people cocoon themselves in some form of shelter , the dose of radiation For each individual not in a shelter would be 450 rems .
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