Example sentences of "[noun pl] in a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time . |
| 2 | As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel . |
| 3 | Under s 36 of the Administration of Justice Act 1970 , where a possession order of a dwelling house is made , then if satisfied that the defendant can pay the current instalments and the arrears in a reasonable time ( or remedy other defaults ) , the court has wide powers of suspending a possession order . |
| 4 | Designer Labels is intended to short-cut the procedure , and allow you to do what you want with labels in a short time , and for the most part , it succeeds . |
| 5 | B has to remove the keys in a given time limit . |
| 6 | evaluation of expressions involving simple arithmetic , exponential , trigonometric , logarithmic or logical functions in a reasonable time |
| 7 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 8 | Mr Patten is on record as saying that teachers have experienced too many changes in a short time and perhaps deserve a period of stability . |
| 9 | And I have n't had these dreams in a long time , and I used to never do anything like that . |
| 10 | This seems to indicate that the college considers that a subspecialist trainee can acquire general skills in a shorter time than an academic trainee . |
| 11 | Conditions on Santiago , however , are truly formidable , In 1982 I spent several days in the interior of the island , seeing the terrifying flows of jagged , jumbled lava that makes walking difficult and cuts shoes to shreds in a short time . |
| 12 | Paul Savage , who has already won Irish championships at novice and intermediate level with Queen 's University , is one of the best prospects in a long time to come ‘ up the road ’ to Hay Island . |
| 13 | By comparison , one of the matching health authorities would claim to have de-hospitalized over a hundred patients in a short time through one specialist developmental officer alone . |
| 14 | And even those who do achieve something lack the scope to go further because ‘ Indians and India are the grandest failures in a long time ’ . |
| 15 | It was one of the best AAA 100 metres in a long time . |
| 16 | They have had a lot of games in a short time . |
| 17 | This is farmore likely to gain management approval because managers can see the expensive exercise paying dividends in a reasonable time scale . |
| 18 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 19 | They want to find out as much as possible about the issues in a short time . |
| 20 | Diesels are much loved by the carriage trade , and can rack up alarming mileages in a short time . |
| 21 | This exercise produces quite startling gains in a short time . |