Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been frequent attacks in the media on ‘ trendy teaching methods ’ and falling academic standards , and there can be no doubt that this has resulted in a deterioration of teachers ' status in society . |
| 2 | In a couple of hours ' time , the kids would be out of school and dogs would be out for their last daylight walks . |
| 3 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 4 | What do you hope to be doing in a couple of years ' time ? |
| 5 | In a couple of years ' time , if things have n't improved , doctors plan more test , including a bone marrow analysis and a liver and bowel biopsy . |
| 6 | If we 'd been forced like myself I believe in a couple of years ' time , I will not be able to enjoy the pension fund that I 'm in at the moment we will have a problem , and we need to deal with that problem , and we need to raise the issue now and have a strategy , and I think it 's the G M B's to take a leading role in looking at this . |
| 7 | I imagine in a couple of years ' time , Bud 's gon na have a lot of trouble with him . |
| 8 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 9 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 10 | And like , I 'm doing the Changeling in a couple of weeks ' time |
| 11 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 12 | She knew that in a couple of days ' time Boyd 's promotion would be announced by his company in the newspaper , underneath a studio portrait of him , and she held her head high as she swayed gracefully into the living-room . |
| 13 | They then had it driven to Kent , where it was buried in a field behind Richens ' parents ' house in the village of Ightham . |
| 14 | KINNEAR : In a rage at Leeds ' style of play |
| 15 | There he was , in a race on Sports ' Day , his skinny , uncoordinated limbs flung out in all directions , galloping clumsily round the track at least half a lap behind everybody else . |
| 16 | The clash occurred in a tackle during Saunders ' last game for Liverpool before his £2.3 million move to Aston Villa . |
| 17 | Spear also found in a study of teachers ' attitudes to girls and technology that the most sex-differentiated replies came from science teachers ( Spear in this volume ) . |
| 18 | Many midwives feel the current emphasis in antenatal care should be of a social nature rather than a medical one , yet Taylor ( 1985 ) , in a study of consumers ' perceptions of maternity care , showed that clients ' emotional needs are often ignored . |
| 19 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
| 20 | Picasso too had stayed near by in a cluster of farmers ' cottages . |
| 21 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |