Example sentences of "[vb pp] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas . |
| 2 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 3 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
| 4 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 5 | One senses a rush of creative warmth as this lonely rapt figure is conjured in a few sentences . |
| 6 | This change was recommended in a recent Customs Foreign Business Review on future developments for international trade in the UK . |
| 7 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 8 | The elections were deemed by foreign observers to have been held without widescale irregularities , although cases were reported in a few localities . |
| 9 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
| 10 | We are confirmed in this belief by a passage contained in a Judicial Studies Board paper issued to Circuit Judges and Recorders in June 1991 where the Honourable Mr Justice Wright stated : It is impossible to over-rate the contribution made by Kemp & Kemp : The Quantum of Damages to this branch of the law and every Judge who has to deal with personal injury litigation will undoubtedly have to have access to it . |
| 11 | All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light . |
| 12 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 13 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 14 | It 's all done in a few seconds , which means it 's even harder for you to fend off the messages ; they go in subliminally , which means you are n't aware of them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 17 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 18 | Once a spreadsheet model is established such questions can be answered in a few seconds . |
| 19 | The man they wanted was a New Zealand-born heroin tsar , sought in a dozen countries but slippery as an eel . |
| 20 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 21 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 22 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 23 | The curtains bowed in a few yards away , almost touching the window-sill , the movement like a wave . |
| 24 | Most of those applications were made in a few weeks . |
| 25 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 26 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 27 | Generally the water was transported in a large Barrel-on-wheels drawn by a donkey , and many of those poor creatures died during their arduous toiling , hence the existence of so many ‘ Dead Donkey Lanes ’ . |
| 28 | Fuelling stations incorporate ‘ fast fill ’ techniques , where fuelling can be accomplished in a few minutes . |
| 29 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 30 | For the Community as a whole , the Maastricht agreement and all its areas — including the social provisions , which the others will accept outside the treaty on the basis of a separate protocol to be agreed in a few months ' time — were the significant aspect . |