Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cost : £199 per person in either a twin or double room ( single supplement , £25 ) ; includes two nights with breakfast and dinner at a 4-star hotel and Rowan yarn worth up to £40 . |
| 2 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 3 | Among the bank of local runners was Alresford man Mark Thwaites who completed the course in just a fraction over three hours . |
| 4 | In instances where the corpse was to travel to the grave in just a winding-sheet , either palled on the bier or via the parish coffin , one does wonder whether there was an unwritten code that the sheet chosen be one of the best from the linen cupboard , or if the sheet upon which the person died sufficed . |
| 5 | could you leave my tea-bag in there a bit longer , . |
| 6 | Any woman who has not spent the week in either a coma or the cupboard-under-the-stairs will know this . |
| 7 | Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver . |
| 8 | Nor is the video industry , which has sprung into life in barely a decade , necessarily a sign of semi-literacy . |
| 9 | If you are equally worried about giving birth in both a hospital and at home you might prefer something in the middle : Some hospitals allow women to use water pools in the labour ward and you can arrange for your GP to help with the birth rather than hospital doctors . |
| 10 | In both Britain and America , the educational preparation of librarians includes all these aspects and more , although individual librarians naturally tend to specialize in depth in only a selection . |
| 11 | Bureaucratic responsiveness in thus a matter of relations between institutions . |
| 12 | The sight of it crossing the line in barely a walk was one of the saddest of the year . |
| 13 | A heavy snowfall can transform an easy walk into a serious proposition in just a matter of hours . |
| 14 | THE MAKING of Nice Work , David Lodge 's adapation for the BBC of his 1988 novel which divides between academia and industry , required extensive filming in both a foundry and a lecture hall . |
| 15 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |