Example sentences of "in [noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 2 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 3 | Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later . |
| 4 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 5 | We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ? |
| 6 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 7 | In consequence a few sessions proved unproductive , and items had to be attempted on successive occasions before she was satisfied with the results . |
| 8 | 'E died in 'ospital a few days later . |
| 9 | Part D , in favour a nuclear arms freeze , was adopted by 136 votes to 13 ( NATO countries , bar Denmark which voted in favour and Spain which abstained ) with 5 abstentions . |
| 10 | Rose demanded , running out to her in bewilderment a few moments later . |
| 11 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 12 | I think I was er , I thought I was in love a few times , but erm in retrospect it was lust |
| 13 | The directive , which follows a similar directive on non-life insurance published in draft a few months ago , is the last big element in its push to open financial markets that are still highly protected . |
| 14 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 15 | She died in hospital a few days later . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't believe you 're in any position to go calling anyone names , ’ she returned , affecting a calmness she was in reality a million miles from feeling . |
| 17 | In fact a recent readers ’ survey commissioned by the relatively diminutive Sunday Telegraph found that the average Telegraph reader spends 61 minutes skimming its 48 pages while the Sunday Times reader spends on average just 10 minutes more wading through its vast encyclopaedic bulk . |
| 18 | And then from time to time , erm in fact a few times during the year , we circulate a newsletter to something like a thousand erm companies on our list . |
| 19 | In fact a few lessons on the lunge will improve your riding whatever level you have reached . |
| 20 | Four large screws make sure the tailpiece is securely located , and it 'll need to be , since all twelve strings anchor in its raised tail , so what looks like a decoratively machined brass rod at the back is in fact a dozen ball-ends grouped together ! |
| 21 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |