Example sentences of "stay [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens , the individuals may disperse or they may stay together in new groupings . |
| 2 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 3 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 4 | Latest figures also show that families are staying longer in so-called ‘ temporary ’ accommodation . |
| 5 | As we have seen , children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier . |
| 6 | The top line on the picture is even more speculative , but informed by the analysis of 32-year-olds discussed above , it traces what the person would earn with identical characteristics other than that of being male and staying throughout in full-time employment . |
| 7 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 8 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 9 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 10 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 11 | A soldier 's wife who stayed on in married quarters after her husband walked out has been asked to pay eight hundred pounds for trespass , the term used by the army when it considers a tenancy has become unlawful . |
| 12 | of youngsters stayed on in full-time educational training . |
| 13 | It was convenient because they could put her to sleep in it when they stayed overnight in strange houses . |