Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 2 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 3 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 4 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |
| 5 | Now it 's done in less than a second . |
| 6 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 7 | Result — a rock-steady garden seat , built in less than a day , for less than £40 . |
| 8 | It was due to open in less than a week . |
| 9 | It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three . |
| 10 | Death occurs in less than a minute , due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles . ’ |
| 11 | Was it possible , after all , that Vologsky could be primed to defect in less than a month ? |
| 12 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 13 | That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week . |
| 14 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 15 | At the moment , automated workflow is used in less than a quarter of all electronic document management systems ; by 1995 it is projected to have jumped to over three quarters . |
| 16 | the LEA offered no grant-aid in support of the four WEA Terminal courses Jacques arranged in 1936–37 although a grant of £40 was promised for 1937–38 . |
| 17 | Work began the following year , using a shield which , though similar to one patented by Barlow in 1868 , was designed by Greathead ; it was forced forward by powerful screw-jacks as excavation proceeded , and the 1,350 ft. long tunnel was completed in less than a year . |
| 18 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 19 | The Herald of Free Enterprise overturned in less than a minute . |
| 20 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 21 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 22 | For since fishermen require only trained aptitudes , and not any exceptional natural qualities , their number could be increased in less than a generation to almost any extent that was necessary to meet the demand ; while the industries connected with building boats , making nets , etc. being now on a larger scale would be organized more thoroughly and economically . |
| 23 | Mr Graham Warren , principal resources officer for the NRA 's Southern Region , said that groundwater levels were the lowest observed in more than a century . |
| 24 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |
| 25 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 26 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |
| 27 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 28 | The Supreme Constitutional Court judged on May 19 that the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutionally elected in 1987 because a 1986 amendment to the 1972 electoral law had unfairly discriminated against independent candidates . |
| 29 | ‘ But they seem to trust in the power of the nine-tailed whip , and they will continue in that until a regiment breaks out of its barracks and makes its own way home . ’ |
| 30 | This changed in 1980 after a major died in one of two shooting attacks against soldiers . |