Example sentences of "[vb infin] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks . |
| 2 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 3 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 4 | ‘ If each of them can just improve a little bit in 10 ways , the team will improve in a hundred ways and that 's not asking a lot of them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Things will improve in a few days . |
| 6 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
| 7 | Why do the Government continue to extol the virtues of this obnoxious Gummerburger food culture instead of instituting an independent food standards agency as the Labour Government will do in a few weeks ' time ? |
| 8 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 9 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 10 | If a man 's face could age in a few seconds , his did . |
| 11 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 12 | SIX test-playing countries will compete in a limited overs tournament to mark the diamond jubilee of India 's Cricket Association of Bengal . |
| 13 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 14 | It will have to be the shortened version , I 'm afraid , but you 'll be surprised how much we can cover in a few hours . ’ |
| 15 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 16 | If the symptoms are of the remedy they will disappear in a few days and no more medicine may be needed . |
| 17 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
| 18 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 19 | that will happen in a few days . |
| 20 | He was assured that he would hear in a few days . |
| 21 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll leave in a few minutes and be with you in about half an hour . |
| 23 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 24 | The computer had located the catalogue , and it would arrive in a few minutes . |
| 25 | However , a machine can only stretch in a few directions and is therefore only of limited value . |
| 26 | I think we might as well get in a few things and anyway I want some envelope re-use labels . |
| 27 | A sudden sickness and fatigue swamped her , and she felt incapable of facing the long , painful inquest that would start in a few minutes — incapable of sustaining any longer the intolerable labour of love . |
| 28 | This part of the conversation has been wiped off , it 'll continue in a few minutes . |
| 29 | The iodine-131 deposited on the ground would decay in a few weeks . |