Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
| 2 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 3 | Hardly anyone over 40 does , though they will have absorbed its influence in a hundred ways , from the design of their daily paper to the styling of the latest television lager ad and the clothes and music their children consume . |
| 4 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 5 | Delacroix saw the Bedouin in that light , remarking that : ‘ They are closer to nature in a thousand ways , and so beauty has a share in everything they make . ’ |
| 6 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 7 | The Supreme Court in a nine votes to seven ruling in mid-July appointed Judge Adolfo Bañados to rule on whether to re-open the case of Orlando Letelier , an ambassador to the United States under the regime of Salvador Allende , who was murdered in Washington in 1976 [ see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ] . |
| 8 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 9 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 10 | It has also been agreed that Italy will pay a reciprocal visit to Dublin in April when they will take part in a Four Nations competition to replace the Home International championships , following England 's decision to pull the plug on the domestic series last season . |
| 11 | It has also been agreed that Italy will pay a reciprocal visit to Dublin in April when they will take part in a Four Nations competition to replace the Home International championships , following England 's decision to pull the plug on the domestic series last season . |
| 12 | Surrey are holding an U17 Festival at Old Emmanuel on September 20th , with their four area teams taking part in a 20 minutes each way mini tournament and coaching day . |
| 13 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 14 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 15 | The company , which is raising the money in a two-for-five rights issue at 155p a share , said attractive opportunities to increase investments were in sight with tenant demand increasing . |
| 16 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 17 | Warwickshire completed their five-match tour of South Africa with their second victory , by 57 runs , over the Boland President 's XI in a 40 overs game at Stellenbosch . |
| 18 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 19 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 20 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 21 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 22 | Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries ! |
| 23 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 24 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 25 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 26 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 27 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |