Example sentences of "to [noun] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
2 | Specimen examination papers for the new syllabuses have been written , and packs will be sent to employers in a few weeks time . |
3 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
4 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
5 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
6 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
7 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
8 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
9 | The Starsearch returns to Derry in a few weeks , and those who missed out on this occasion are strongly urged to re-enter . |
10 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |
11 | She 'd get to California in a few days . |
12 | But the British Fascisti were in earnest , though doomed to extinction in a few years with the creation of Oswald Mosley 's New Party . |
13 | She 's had such a good time and made so many new friends that she 's quite resigned to going back to school in a few days ’ time . ’ |
14 | Extraordinary though such a testimonial may now appear , it was invaluable to Joyce in the few years before the war . |
15 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |