Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Walters climbed off the substitutes ' bench to score Liverpool 's two goals in a frenetic closing 13 minutes . |
| 2 | The system of zoogeographical regions , now accepted by zoologists throughout the world , was the work of two great Victorian naturalists , Dr P. L. Sclater , who put forward his theories in 1858 , and Alfred Russel Wallace , who set down his conclusions in a classic book eighteen years later . |
| 3 | Most funding for traffic comes from the Department of Transport — but bids for cycling schemes are in a curious Catch 22 position : |
| 4 | And the day of the funeral , recalled in a quasi-fictionalised form 18 years later , was no less memorable or searing : Breavman 's mother had stayed alone in her room leaving ‘ Nursie ’ to get the children ready . |
| 5 | The execution-style killings occurred at the Wat Promkunaram temple , the second-largest site of Buddhist worship in the country , built in 1988 in a remote location 20 miles west of Phoenix . |
| 6 | The Ford car in which Ian Spiro fled after the shooting was discovered in a remote area 100 miles east of San Diego , near the Mexican border . |
| 7 | In general , a hedge will contain in a 30-yard length one shrub species for every century of its life . |
| 8 | Emily Ascher was dead , killed in a fictitious accident three days back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The jury , which spent more than six hours considering its verdicts , cleared Mason of threatening to kill Mr Hawes in a separate incident 18 days earlier , but were unable to agree on another charge of affray . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Although Rod Wallace opened the scoring from Strachan 's pull-back 10 minutes into the second half , nervous , unconvincing Leeds could not be sure of victory until both Lee Chapman and Cantona scored in a hectic final three minutes . |
| 13 | In Dering Street , Grob gives a first exhibition to Danny Moynihan ( 12 May–20 June ) , who was seen at the gallery in a mixed exhibition two years ago . |
| 14 | In a similar tragedy three days before Christmas last year , father-of-six David Button , 34 , was knocked off his cycle and killed on his way to work from his home in Hedgerley , Bucks . |
| 15 | France , inspired by captain Gilles Dumas , who opened the scoring in the fourth minute , displayed their breathtaking array of attacking skills in a frantic final 40 minutes . |
| 16 | For example , the Standard Procedure has resulted in a 4 minute 40 seconds pattern . |
| 17 | In six hours in a warm environment four bugs in a moist sandwich will multiply to more than a million — the danger level for causing illness . |
| 18 | Put this on a baking sheet and cook in a preheated oven 180 °C ( 350 °F ) gas mark 4 for 12–15 minutes until golden and then cool . |
| 19 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 20 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |
| 21 | Its prevalence is unknown except that , in a retrospective analysis two years after cholecystectomy , eight of 93 patients were said to have loose stools and bouts of watery diarrhea . |
| 22 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 23 | COCKNEY actor Bob Hoskins was last night tipped as the favourite to play grumpy cartoon character Mr Magoo in a new £27 million Steven Spielberg blockbuster film . |
| 24 | Next week Miss Horrocks stars in a new BBC 2 comedy , Absolutely Famous , with Joanna Lumley , Jennifer Saunders , June Whitfield and Julia Sawalha . |
| 25 | The pair will co-star in a new BBC 2 show , Absolutely Fabulous , written by Jennifer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Collins 's wife Jill and young daughter Lily have been living in Los Angeles since April in a Tudor-style £5 million Beverly Hills mansion . |
| 28 | Unlike her sisters , Kimberly lives in a rural cottage twenty miles outside of the city . |
| 29 | Trow Mill stands in a picturesque site two miles north-east of the town on the A698 . |
| 30 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |