Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 2 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 3 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall leave England in a few months ’ time . ’ |
| 5 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 6 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 7 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 8 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 9 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 10 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
| 11 | It was agreed with the Prince that the interview would take place at Broadlands where he would be staying with the Brabournes in a few weeks ' time . |
| 12 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 13 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 14 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
| 15 | The Starsearch returns to Derry in a few weeks , and those who missed out on this occasion are strongly urged to re-enter . |
| 16 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 17 | The accused man Paul Beechey was driven into the magistrates court at Didcot in an unmarked police car . |
| 18 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 19 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 20 | She 'd get to California in a few days . |
| 21 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 22 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 23 | We hope to rejoin Nick Harris in a few minutes , we hope he 's able to speak with manager , Brian Horton or perhaps one or two of the players . |
| 24 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
| 25 | When she visited us with her boyfriend and said that she would be able to take Susan in a few weeks , we had to disguise our emotions . |
| 26 | ‘ PhD STUDENTS will flock to Sri Lanka in a few years ’ time and write learned theses on the inappropriateness of high technology aid for poor countries ’ , predicts a Sri Lankan lawyer , Gamini Iriyagolle , a specialist on the Mahaweli Programme , one of the world 's biggest development schemes under way anywhere . |
| 27 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |
| 28 | could you put me in touch ? ’ 'Sorry he 'll be back from America in a few days ' bingo . |
| 29 | Trains can link Newcastle and London in a few minutes over two and a half hours . |
| 30 | He also agrees to my request to take Fairfax on board as historical adviser and fixes a meeting in London in a few weeks to review progress . |