Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll let Peter come back to you in just a moment erm and there are more question I would ask you as well but erm now we must take a short break with time at nine twenty six .
2 In under a year 's time the Services will also lose Crown Immunity , so that will add to the vigilance that will be necessary .
3 In about a year 's time , the IBA will be no longer , and the regulation of radio passes to the Radio Authority .
4 However , the SAAF have made a very good proposal to DASA that they take on 6886 in about a year 's time , along with a very comprehensive spare package .
5 If they do strike oil , there will be another test well in about a year 's time .
6 It would be open to both men and women , aged from about 18 to 25 , with building due to begin in about a year 's time .
7 ‘ We will shortly move our milk distribution depot to the site and plan to be packaging locally sourced milk in about a year 's time , ’ he said .
8 And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time .
9 Probably get arrested in about a week 's time .
10 ‘ Only that I 'll be eating lunch in about an hour 's time , ’ he said .
11 The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time .
12 I mean you 're in Gloucester in about an hour 's time
13 That could easily be in over a year 's time .
14 After a pretentious dinner and a bad night — it is rare , I find , to get through even a fortnight 's motoring trip in France without at least one such disaster — spent in a highly unlikely establishment disguised as a cluster of Camargue guardian huts , we left before breakfast and spent a healing morning lost in the remaining lonely stretches of this once completely wild , mysterious , melancholy , half-land , half-water , Rhone estuary country .
15 I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets ' nest .
16 His shadowy presence created an irresistible desire for her to stretch out just an arm 's length away — and caress him , but that desire was counterbalanced by nausea at the prospect of his body coming into contact with hers again .
17 ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’
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