Example sentences of "[adj] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 2 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 3 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 4 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
| 5 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 6 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 7 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 8 | The January 1989 white and fawn dog finished second in a 631 metres open at Sunderland , and switching to Middlesbrough 's inside hare has not proved to be any problem . |
| 9 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 10 | It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact . |
| 11 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 12 | I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 14 | Medical diagnoses covered a range of conditions , including dehydration ( 11 patients ) , sepsis ( 13 ) , intrinsic renal disease ( seven ) , and haematological disease ( eight ) , or a combination of these in a few cases . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 16 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 17 | While she was travelling this long roundabout route Jenny could get across in a straight line by the stepping-stones , all in a few minutes . |
| 18 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 19 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 20 | And it offers it all in a low-profile systems cabinet which is 30% smaller than comparable machines — yet designed by CompuAdd 212 provides the power and expandability to handle everything from word-processing and spreadsheets to network applications and presentation graphics . |
| 21 | He noted the classification of these stations , the great variety of styles used , and their relative paucity over vast desert distances compared with European standards — only sixty in a thousand miles — and their distance from the towns and cities they were to serve . |
| 22 | Each document is at the same time unique and existing in a thousand places . |
| 23 | The Indian pair of Leander Paes and Ramesh Krishnan beat Jacob Hlasek and Marc Rosset , both ranked way above them , 6–7 ( 4–7 ) 7–6 ( 12–10 ) 7–5 2–6 6–3 in a rousing doubles match . |
| 24 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 25 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 26 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 27 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 28 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 29 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 30 | I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days . |