Example sentences of "[num] [prep] an [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Run by a staff of six from an office in London , UK , Gemini sends some 12 news-features a week to newspapers and magazines around the world . |
| 2 | Now what 's point three of an hour in minutes ? |
| 3 | Six days of discussions in the Venezuelan capital , Caracas , mediated by UN envoy Alvaro De Soto , led on May 21 to an agreement in principle between representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) and the Salvadorean government of President Alfredo Cristiani . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were round in shape , and about three-sixteenths of an inch in width . |
| 6 | John Osborne turned his invective on the Palace in 1957 in an article in Encounter : |
| 7 | A genuine one always has three tiny depressions one-quarter of an inch in diameter close to the centre-hole . |
| 8 | The eggs are usually laid in the evening or early morning , in a salmon-pink mass , about two to three inches long and half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter . |
| 9 | One of the most important new groups to emerge during this period was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , formed in 1926 as an initiative in part , of the President of the Town Planning Institute , Patrick Abercrombie . |
| 10 | THE world 's smallest motor , an electromagnetic micromachine 31 thousandths of an inch in diameter , has been made in Japan . |
| 11 | In other words , national income rises by £5 million following an increase in investment of only £2 million . |
| 12 | The groove was very coarse , and was played with a sapphire 32-thousandths of an inch in diameter . |