Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in [art] [num] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I never worry when we 're out in a force-eight gale ; not if she 's in charge . ’
2	After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions .
3	Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy .
4	The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs .
5	We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
6	Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
7	Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
8	And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here .
9	Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ?
10	But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's .
11	Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties .
12	Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties .

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