Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most funding for traffic comes from the Department of Transport — but bids for cycling schemes are in a curious Catch 22 position : |
| 2 | In general , a hedge will contain in a 30-yard length one shrub species for every century of its life . |
| 3 | AN air force officer who fled Communist Cuba in a stolen MiG 23 jet fighter has snatched his wife and children to freedom in a new daredevil flight . |
| 4 | ‘ In a separate case one policeman is in charge of a case where there are allegations of police brutality and pressure being used to extract statements . |
| 5 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 6 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 7 | Next week Miss Horrocks stars in a new BBC 2 comedy , Absolutely Famous , with Joanna Lumley , Jennifer Saunders , June Whitfield and Julia Sawalha . |
| 8 | The pair will co-star in a new BBC 2 show , Absolutely Fabulous , written by Jennifer . |
| 9 | Fernandez remembered North breaking down as he told him , sitting in a parked car one night , that Buckley was dead ; David Jacobsen , the last hostage to be released as a result of the arms transfers , recalled North in tears on the aeroplane to Germany , wishing that the other hostages had been freed with him . |
| 10 | Nine Pullmans were restored to their former splendour ( but with modern air braking ) at Carnforth in a remarkable £3 million project . |
| 11 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |
| 12 | In a human being one cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes . |
| 13 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 14 | For simplicity there are only 9 flip-flops in a 3 x 3 array . |
| 15 | The Oscar joined them in a pretty well-populated four foot tank in early May and appeared to ignore and be ignored by everybody . |
| 16 | A 1 per cent growth in real incomes results in an additional £0.5 billion surplus accruing to the Exchequer . |
| 17 | Other , more expensive , printers use a larger matrix ; for example , the Mannesman-Tally MT-86 builds its characters in an 8 x 11 grid , while some printers use a 24-dot print head . |
| 18 | This policy puts the regions in an impossible Catch 22 situation : they can not satisfy the government 's current demand criteria for new rail investment because of past under-investment in the network , and can not stimulate such levels of demand without that investment . |
| 19 | With floor sensors operating the automatic sliding doors between the end vestibules and the passengers ' saloons perpetually energised by standing passengers , travel in an overcrowded Mark 3 coach seems little better than its predecessors . |
| 20 | In an earlier dispute 8,000 diamond miners belonging to the NUM had cut diamond production by the De Beers mining company by a third in mid-October 1989 in support of a demand for a 26.6 per cent wage increase . |
| 21 | In an earlier debate one speaker demonstrated a condom with banana . |