Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 2 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 3 | A GO-KART bought to keep kids out of trouble has been stolen from a youth centre in Cardiff after just a week . |
| 4 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 5 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 6 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 7 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 8 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 9 | So the relative cheapness of having correspondence in string with just a fax machine dotted around the place instead of having machines and cameras and sound crews . |
| 10 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 11 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 13 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 14 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 15 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 16 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 17 | The speeder froze in mid-air for just a moment , while its computers coped with the sudden assault on the automatic systems . |
| 18 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 19 | He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse . |
| 20 | Lesley 's baby daughter was premature , in common with quite a number of other teenage mothers . |
| 21 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 22 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 23 | Mr Reynolds however was in hospital for over a week before having an operation to remove a carcinoma from his bowel . |
| 24 | Police believe she will be in hospital for about a week . |
| 25 | She was in hospital for almost a year and now lives with her son in an adapted bungalow for disabled people run by social services in Gwent . |
| 26 | After the 1989 elections tensions within the PSOE developed into a rift between the party itself and the government ; the latter was accused of moving politically to the right and of becoming involved in corruption after nearly a decade of power . |
| 27 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 28 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 29 | She was she taught in Pennycook for quite a while , then she went down to Birmingham . |
| 30 | She was in depression for about a year . |