Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 2 | I 'd have to stay in Holyhead for a few nights . |
| 3 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 4 | It was the worst violence since a 23-nation task force , headed by the United States , moved into Somalia in December under a United Nations mandate to end gun law and the looting of food aid for an estimated two million starving Somalis . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 6 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 7 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |
| 8 | I was in Sydney for a few weeks , and had an affair with a broad . |
| 9 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
| 10 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 12 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 13 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 14 | They 'll work in France for a few weeks at a time staying in hotels . |
| 15 | The Louisiana legislation had also been declared unconstitutional in September by a federal appeals court . |
| 16 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 17 | From there he went to Central TV 's news room in Nottingham as a current affairs producer then on to Granada as the editor of This Morning . |
| 18 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 19 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years , seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 20 | Her mother 's not too well — she 's staying on in Hazelbury for a few days , ’ Leith speedily calmed his fears . |
| 21 | She could stay in Edinburgh for a few days longer , she said , until he was ready to go back . |
| 22 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |
| 23 | He also agrees to my request to take Fairfax on board as historical adviser and fixes a meeting in London in a few weeks to review progress . |