Example sentences of "[conj] in [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was named after a Breton nobleman and has a castle where in 1569 Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned . |
| 2 | It points out that in 1989 government revenue was £18.1 billion , made up of £2.9 billion from road tax , £1.5 billion from car tax , £5 billion from VAT and £8.7 billion from fuel taxes . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
| 4 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
| 5 | It is useful to know what other models can do since microcomputers have a limited life and it may be that in five years time , the librarian and teachers will be involved in seeking a replacement for the existing microcomputer . |
| 6 | In April 1989 a United States drug enforcement agent gave his personal guarantee that in two years time the United Kingdom would have a serious crack problem . |
| 7 | Margaret Irwin reported in 1894 that in one Edinburgh firm the piece rate was 6¾d per 1000 for a man , 3d to 5d for a woman ; in another , men got 6½d , women 4½jd to 5d . |
| 8 | The only interesting thing about the film was the revelation that in one London borough some local councillors owned several of the bed and breakfast hotels where conditions were particularly dreadful . |
| 9 | First let us notice that in one respect Brentano is as fully in the Cartesian tradition as anyone else . |
| 10 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |
| 11 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 12 | And I see it as part of my problem in education is to erm , change the attitudes of the the boys who are , you know , at a very young , and I 'll be sorry to think that in ten years time they would still be having erm the rather arrogant attitudes that they have ! |
| 13 | This means that several large microcomputer companies are designing computers which will run most IBM software and it may be that in ten years time , the problem of incompatibility will be lessened . |
| 14 | I think we will be able to say that in ten years time the microprocessor will really be with us . |
| 15 | The London Food Commission in its research into 299 permitted additives , discovered that in 25 cases evidence existed of severe toxic hazard . |
| 16 | Smarter and smarter theatres were opened until in 1915 Orchestra Hall itself , the home of the Chicago Symphony , was refitted as a home for ‘ photoplays ’ . |
| 17 | If in five years time Middlesbrough are the richest club in the North but Darlington , Scarborough and Hartlepool have gone to the wall , we might reflect on the formation of the so-called superleague with some bitterness . |
| 18 | The Hatfield Polytechnic was moving towards computer instruction for all students because , said Norman Lindop in 1971 , ‘ the computer is a part of modern culture ’ , and in 1970 Computer Weekly was drawing attention to the CNAA 's contribution to computer availability in Scotland . |
| 19 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |
| 20 | And in two cases official that were supposed to give the data went missing . |
| 21 | Oct-11 mRNA was detected in the adult thymus and testes and in 14.5 day p.c. embryos . |
| 22 | At present for instance , we have a cichlid growing-on and breeding ( we hope ) project in our cleanest largest and best tank ; we have a misbehaving Picasso Trigger on its own in a marine tank ( he was a bully in his owner 's community ) ; we have a ‘ planted ’ tank ( planted in the sense that it 's used as a holding tank for plants ) housing four swordtails , temporarily ; and three tanks devoid of occupants and in one case water . |
| 23 | And in one case study Cecchetti ( 1986 ) has shown that the news-stand price of magazines has been very rigid ( Reader 's Digest changed its price six times between 1950 and 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Especially in polygynous species , the costs of combat are frequently high ( Geist , 1971 ; Clutton-Brock , Albon , Gibson & Guinness , 1979 ) and so , too are the costs of many sexually dimorphic characters associated with combat , such as increased male body size and weapon development ( Clutton-Brock , Guinness & Albon , 1982 ) : in species where males are substantially larger than females , both growing and adult males are often more likely to die than females ( Robinette , Gashwiler , Low & Jones , 1957 ; Grubb , 1974 ; Howe , 1977 ) and in one reindeer population which crashed from 6000 to 42 , only one of the remaining adults was a male ( Klein , 1968 ) . |
| 25 | [ And on the next day ] Dr Hunter and Mr Cruikshanks came at 9 this morning and put my wife into the Box on and in 130 lb weight of Paris plaister at 18d a bag . |
| 26 | She intentially overstayed her visit and in six months time was doing ‘ day 's work ’ in people 's homes . |
| 27 | The fighting escalated with Aoun launching attacks in East Beirut and in 20 villages north-east of Beirut . |
| 28 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 29 | In 1861 he was appointed manager of the Cowlairs works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow ( later North British ) Railway and in 1865 locomotive superintendent of the newly formed Highland Railway at Inverness , where he rebuilt existing locomotives to make them more suitable for use over its heavily graded lines . |
| 30 | And in three years time Ford will unveil its challenge to the Renault Espace multi-purpose vehicle . |