Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " 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 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 7 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 8 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was she taught in Pennycook for quite a while , then she went down to Birmingham . |
| 11 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |