Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 2 | They all lived together in two rooms-and a courtyard . |
| 3 | As we have seen , Attlee accumulated 148 standing and 313 ad hoc groups in six and quarter years , and Churchill 137 and 109 respectively in three and a half years . |
| 4 | William Warbey of the ILP Revolutionary Policy Committee suggested early in 1932 that a joint party should be formed . |
| 5 | He formed the idea early in 1958 that a new front end with very unequal length wishbones would stop the roll centre moving about . |
| 6 | When news arrived early in 1657 that a Spanish plate fleet on its way to the Canaries , Bourne ( now vice-admiral ) and ( Sir ) Richard Stayner [ q.v. ] , the new rear-admiral , pressed Blake to intercept it . |
| 7 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 8 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 9 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 10 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 11 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 12 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 13 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 14 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |
| 15 | And then certainly in two and a half year 's time , a hundred and seventy million pounds is being spent by Water er putting in a new sewage station . |
| 16 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |