Example sentences of "in [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 2 | Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade . |
| 4 | In little more than a decade , its operating systems have won dominance in the personal-computer industry . |
| 5 | She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ? |
| 6 | When he spoke again , it was in little more than a whisper . |
| 7 | ‘ You — you want me to — to live with you , Felipe ? ’ she asked in little more than a whisper . |
| 8 | An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week . |
| 9 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 10 | She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’ |
| 11 | Father had said Cornwall might be different and in little more than an hour , how different it was . |
| 12 | In the second half of the eighteenth century some progress was made , but it was the invention of the bobbin net machine by John Heathcoat ( see Tiverton ) in 1808 that provided the foundation for mechanical lace-making . |
| 13 | But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer . |
| 14 | Well there is a moral in all that and the moral of that is |
| 15 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 16 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |