Example sentences of "[vb pp] in a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 2 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 3 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 4 | The man they wanted was a New Zealand-born heroin tsar , sought in a dozen countries but slippery as an eel . |
| 5 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 6 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 7 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 8 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 9 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 10 | A miser 's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges . |
| 11 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 12 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 14 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 15 | From where he stood , Nuadu saw the slender , copper-haired Beech Naiad emerge from the murdered tree , her arms chopped to ribbons , her body maimed in a dozen places , the red-gold blood of the beech spurting from her . |
| 16 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 17 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 18 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 19 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |