Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 2 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 3 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 4 | They were shooting in a hospital the next day . |
| 5 | He never in fact produced the list ( which in a speech the next day had been mysteriously reduced to 57 ) but his smear tactics worked in an atmosphere of fear . |