Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened in Germany about a year ago . |
| 2 | More damning evidence came from Polly , who said she had seen her mother in Cardiff about a year previously with three children , and a day later had seen her without any . |
| 3 | It is very difficult to understand the root causes of our failure to take industrial R&D seriously , but Sir Eric thinks that it is at least in part simply a reflection of a more pervasive anti-intellectualism which seems to run through British society . |
| 4 | In part the style is an acknowledgement of how she came to the leadership , and in part also a reaction to previous leaders . |
| 5 | Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him . |
| 6 | There were in addition downstairs a boiler room with a bed in it , a bathroom and kitchen . |
| 7 | In literature either a device is presented exclusively for its defamiliarizing effect , or else it may be motivated — that is to say its presence as a device is disguised by a veneer of realism . |
| 8 | For someone who is only moderately active , that could mean a 7- or 8 lb ( 3- or 3.5-kg ) increase in weight over a year . |
| 9 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 10 | Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation . |
| 11 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 12 | In Kazakhstan only a quarter of those interviewed thought that life would get better next year . |
| 13 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 14 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 15 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 16 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 17 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 18 | It may be of interest to note that 760 years after this visit there is living in Halling today a person whose grandfather , Robert Langton , a friend and biographer of Charles Dickens , claimed descent from the family of this Archbishop . |
| 19 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 20 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |
| 21 | allocated in August 1991 and another £50,000 in loans only a week or so ago . |
| 22 | It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable . |
| 23 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 24 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |
| 25 | When we had been in Manchester only a week , a week of arduous rehearsals and long hours , Vicky could keep little food down and , frantic with worry for her , I urged her to go home now . |
| 26 | AN Army and civilian exercise went ahead in secret yesterday a casualty of the General Election . |
| 27 | When the closed path is in a wire loop and the loop is in motion then a force due to the magnetic field is present as well , giving rise to a finite amount of work in the same manner . |
| 28 | I 've been in hospital rather a lot . ’ |
| 29 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 30 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |