Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 2 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 3 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 4 | By night for twelve hours in another boat he sailed through the Underworld beneath the earth , bringing his light to the lower darkness . |
| 5 | On one occasion in this period he was unusually self-revealing in a conversation with Virginia Woolf ; she sensed an agonized and lonely man , filled with " self-torture , doubt , conceit , desire for warmth and intimacy " . |
| 6 | She threatened them , she menaced them , and one day in this vein she would marry one of them . |
| 7 | Falls to thirty two degrees centigrade or ninety degrees fahrenheit the following can occur and that 's a big drop , that 's a drop of five degrees in this country we 're very used to rapid temperature changes in our environment in the spring you can have frost in the morning and it can get really quite hot by the afternoon , sometimes up to about seventy ca n't it ? |
| 8 | If they have one thing in that colour they may have another one . |
| 9 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 10 | this is gon na be done from the heart , there 's no , nothing being put there in front , because when you see what I 've got and what my branch has achieved working with unemployed people your branch earner and that lady up there , , twenty seven years in this union we started this football team , it was this dream that I had and I come from Salford , which is not far from which is devastated with drugs burnt out cars people robbing each other , and of course , . |