Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 2 | This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " . |
| 3 | Rather , indicate in a few words how the rest of your answer would proceed if you had time . |
| 4 | However , the complexity of his task is such that it can not readily be summarised in a few words . |
| 5 | The common solution to all three unsolved problems — open years , the cash crunch and litigation — might be found in a single word : mutualisation . |
| 6 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 7 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 8 | This results from uncertainty about the segmentation of the input string ( i.e. where does one character stop and the next one start in a cursive word ) . |
| 9 | She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word . |
| 10 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 11 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 12 | However , it puts well , I think , the case that the real basis of any public relations solution should be able to be captured in a few words which reflect the concept involved . |