Example sentences of "in a [num] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNSCEAR ( 1977 ) estimates that in a million liveborn children in the first generation of offspring of a population exposed to 10 mGy ( 1 rad ) at low dose rate during the generation , there would be 63 genetic diseases . |
| 2 | And waking suddenly like that , you woke in a thousand different places at once , all the places that you 'd ever been . |
| 3 | I do n't know what 's going to happen , so , Carrie , I must say it — I 've implied it in a thousand different ways for months now — I … |
| 4 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 5 | Just before Christmas when she was twelve , she had her hair plaited in a hundred little plaits with a bead on the end of each plait . |
| 6 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |