Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what 's point three of an hour in minutes ? |
| 2 | Like everyone in the area covered by the South Wales police authority , I must ask why built-up urban areas such as Cardiff and Swansea will pass this Christmas — with all the great temptations offered to young people at that time — and go through 1992-93 with no increase in police manpower . |
| 3 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |
| 4 | A female fruit fly , simply because of her tiny size , can hardly be expected to produce eggs in numbers to rival a cod , but even so , she can lay two thousand in a season in batches of a hundred at a time . |
| 5 | The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party ( GSLP ) led by Joe Bossano was returned to office with nearly three-quarters of the vote in elections in the self-governing British colony on Jan. 16 . |
| 6 | The second main proposal relates to the buyer 's rights to reject the goods and to treat the contract as repudiated because of a breach of one of the conditions in sections 13–15 . |
| 7 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 8 | At 16 plus the reforms in examinations which were proposed in 1991 added further complexity by implying the need for a new connection between SEAC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid on more than one occasion , she 's had one or two of the girls in tears . |
| 10 | He was just meditating whether he could risk running straight in through the kitchen door when he saw two of the firemen in masks , doing just that . |