Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to change at Exeter in half an hour . |
| 2 | The Monsal Dale Viaduct was built in 1862 to carry the Midland Railway across the valley of the River Wye , so that , as Ruskin put it , ‘ every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour ’ . |
| 3 | Rutli is reached on foot by the marked path from Seelisberg in half an hour ; if for the return walk an easier ascent is preferred , take the gentle ascent-descent to Treib previously described in reverse direction ; then back to Seelisberg by funicular . |
| 4 | In Britain in 1986 an estimated 1.3 million carers kept dependants out of institutions , providing some £7.3 billion worth of informal care . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in America in 1945 an author called Lawrence Treat , who had half-a-dozen crime books already under his belt , produced one called V as in Victim , which did much what The Lonely Magdalen had done . |
| 6 | Around Leeds in 1787 an eight-hour day was the norm , with no sign yet of the twelve- hour one which had become common by 1842 . |