Example sentences of "[conj] in [num] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 2 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 3 | Although in three cases it was recognised that the operation was technically unsatisfactory and early rebleeding was encountered in each case , in the rest there appeared to be no obvious explanation for these surgical failures . |
| 4 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 6 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 7 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 8 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 9 | ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony . |
| 10 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 11 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 12 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 13 | It is quite preposterous that in 35 minutes we shall reach the end of this debate on banding , a matter of considerable interest to my constituents and , I suspect , to many other constituents in London and the south-east . |
| 14 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 15 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 16 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 17 | If in one way he seemed much more human , more normally fallible , than before , that was tainted by what seemed like a lack of virginity in the telling . |
| 18 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 19 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 20 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 21 | He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep . |
| 22 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 23 | It is highly unlikely that any of the Pacific fish used in these tests had ever encountered a sea snake previously and in two instances they certainly could not have done so . |
| 24 | Now that 's , that 's a very interesting for a homeward bound commuter , you know , getting into the tube and you grab one of these papers and you read it and in fifteen minutes you get to Oakland fifty minutes , why turn on the news ? |
| 25 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 26 | The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! |
| 27 | Clark had a bad back — arthritis — and in one scene they are driving through the crowd going to the rodeo . |
| 28 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 29 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 30 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |