Example sentences of "in a winter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noises outside were definitely the sounds made by skeletonal timber in a winter wind . |
| 2 | The agreement with Swithland Motors means players not invited to take part in a winter tour will be retained for the full year , to promote the game by working with young players . |
| 3 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 4 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |
| 5 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 6 | But as he and Sara looked about their new home in a winter twilight , they must soon have recognized that the Lime Street cottage would be one major obstacle in the path to contentment of any kind . |
| 7 | Between 1962 and 1976 Gadwall were recorded annually , numbers ranging from seven to 55 in a winter . |
| 8 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 9 | He is second to none , for instance , at suggesting the shimmer and glint of birches in a winter landscape . |
| 10 | It is successful , but care must be taken as coat growth is also affected , resulting in a winter coat in summer and vice versa . |
| 11 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 12 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |