Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In a close encounter last season , Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6 .
2 In a close encounter last season , Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6 .
3 The new beer was launched in a bottled version last January .
4 Cantona hardly had a kick when he made his debut at Oldham as a second-half substitute in a 2-0 defeat last February .
5 California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model .
6 All three countries were already in a deep recession last summer , which the war has made worse .
7 In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs .
8 When the same question was put in a similar survey last year , the figure in support was 79pc .
9 The hon. Member for Dagenham — greatly to his political peril — refuses to acknowledge the resentment that was felt by those living alone because their liability under the rating system was the same as the family living in a similar property next door .
10 All three were said to be in a critical condition last night .
11 Two of the burns victims were in a critical condition last night .
12 Shona died at the scene and Gavin , who suffers from asthma , was in a critical condition last night .
13 Faye Herbert , aged 24 , who was four months pregnant , was in a stable condition last night in hospital following the accident at Timsbury , near Bath .
14 Robert Fleming economist Peter Warburton , in a powerful assessment last week , focused on the critical role of real interest rates , combined with a fixed currency value , in posing a threat to asset prices and economic activity .
15 In a criminal hearing last August , Dale was put on a good behaviour bond over the incident .
16 It was like watching the corn being cut in a southern village last summer .
17 John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 .
18 In a modernised house next door , a two-earning couple will be liable to only £100 each .
19 Faced with a collapsing economy and the prospect of becoming the major player in a new government next year , the ANC 's national executive committee said it would call for an end to economic sanctions as soon as there was agreement with the government on dates for an all-racial election and for the establishment of an interim government of national unity .
20 I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’
21 McKinlay won the British Girls ' Championship as a 16 year-old in 1989 , and Moodie , 17 , claimed the British Under-18 , Scottish Under-21 and the Wilson PGA Junior Stroke Play titles in a glorious August last year .
22 LUCKLESS St. Helens Town , better than their record of one win in 15 games suggests , had to thank a last-minute goal by nomadic striker Steve Cannon for a deserved point at Darwen in a 1-1 draw last week .
23 She was in a Canadian hospital last night suffering from exhaustion .
24 Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday .
25 A TOP judge was being held in a psychiatric ward last night , charged with harassing and blackmailing his ex-mistress .
26 She was in a psychiatric hospital last night .
27 ‘ No ’ voters , who plunged the EC into crisis by rejecting the union treaty in a previous referendum last June , appeared to be losing hope .
28 Silvia had been in a bad state last night .
29 2 weeks before the big game , he broke his ankle and then suffered the same fate in a Sevens tournament last April .
30 He needed the run when not disgraced in a valuable handicap last time , and is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when impressively landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Cheltenham Festival in March .
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