Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 2 | Although an unconscious patient is likely to have biochemical hypoglycaemia ( blood glucose concentration <3.0 mmol/l ) , the relation between symptomatic and biochemical hypoglycaemia may be poor , with one study showing biochemical confirmation in less than a third of symptomatic patients . |
| 3 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
| 4 | If they hit it , it would rip the bottom out of Golden Girl in less than a second . |
| 5 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 6 | For all its political militancy , the ILP was no less fearful of revolutionaries put their faith in industrial action : ‘ A general strike in the big key industries of Europe will put an end to the war in less than a week ’ , declared Solidarity , a shop steward paper , early in February . |
| 7 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 8 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 9 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 10 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 11 | Research has shown that the mechanisms in the human brain go through the anger response in less than a second . |
| 12 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 13 | Normally held once a year , this was the third plenum in less than a year ( third plenum , November 1988 ; fourth plenum , June 1989 , to dismiss Zhao Ziyang ; fifth plenum , November 1989 , to rectify the economy ) reflecting the rapid pace of change . |
| 14 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 15 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 16 | The remote would be blasted out of the sky in less than a fiftieth of a second . ’ |
| 17 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 18 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 19 | Public disenchantment with the fruits of democratization , and voter fatigue ( the second round on Oct. 14 was the sixth nationwide ballot in less than a year ) , were blamed for widespread apathy towards the elections . |
| 20 | It 's the biggest outbreak in the city in more than a decade . |
| 21 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 22 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 23 | They drew three coverts blank , found at a fourth , but lost the line in less than a mile . |
| 24 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 25 | I believe Trade Unions recognised that there was more to the Bank Dispute in 1992 than a mere Salary Issue . |
| 26 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 27 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 28 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 29 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |