Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 2 | They all lived together in two rooms-and a courtyard . |
| 3 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 4 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 5 | As we have seen , Attlee accumulated 148 standing and 313 ad hoc groups in six and quarter years , and Churchill 137 and 109 respectively in three and a half years . |
| 6 | William Warbey of the ILP Revolutionary Policy Committee suggested early in 1932 that a joint party should be formed . |
| 7 | He formed the idea early in 1958 that a new front end with very unequal length wishbones would stop the roll centre moving about . |
| 8 | When news arrived early in 1657 that a Spanish plate fleet on its way to the Canaries , Bourne ( now vice-admiral ) and ( Sir ) Richard Stayner [ q.v. ] , the new rear-admiral , pressed Blake to intercept it . |
| 9 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 11 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 12 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 13 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 14 | We would then have a report back in plenary and a time for additional comments . |
| 15 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 16 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 17 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 18 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 19 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 20 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 21 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |
| 22 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
| 23 | And then certainly in two and a half year 's time , a hundred and seventy million pounds is being spent by Water er putting in a new sewage station . |
| 24 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |