Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senior course was from Windsor to the Royal Canoe Club at Teddington , taking in eight locks and a River Thames course which was choppy because of all the powered craft . |
| 2 | The AA 's free booklet , Motoring on the Continent also contains a mileage chart giving distances between 16 ports and 20 major European destinations ; a list of toll charges ; a tale of motoring requirements in 12 countries and a guide to speed limits . |
| 3 | A scramble for film rights and a whistle-stop tour of the US on a book-signing tour followed — 11 cities in 12 days and a $75,000 advance . |
| 4 | The 164 Cloverleaf has been uprated to 200bhp , delivering 0 to 60 mph in 7.5 seconds and a top speed of 147 mph ( where permitted ) . |
| 5 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 6 | Holdsworth , a £725,000 summer signing from Brentford , has not scored in six matches since a hernia operation . |
| 7 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The wettest August in six years and a record for rain in September have not diminished the chances of the finest crop to date . ’ |
| 9 | in 10 years and a great deal of that is due to higher productivity . |
| 10 | When this is simply the horizontal movement of the part across the screen the operator can usually cope , but when the movement is a translation in three dimensions and a compound rotation , the possibilities for error become enormous . |
| 11 | Both teams have won twice in three outings and a keen , tightly contested struggle is in prospect . |
| 12 | The look is dazzling but transient ; in three wearings and a press the stiffness has gone from the material and the cool pastels are greyed . |
| 13 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 14 | Even so Edinburgh Academicals have provided Sole with a solid platform from which he has gone from strength to strength , culminating in three Tests and a series triumph for the Lions . |
| 15 | Tom O'Connor , Chairman of the CBI 's Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ In manufacturing alone , smaller firms account for one in three jobs and a quarter of the total output . |
| 16 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 17 | For that 200 new owners every year will get V8 power , 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and a top speed of 140 . |
| 18 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 19 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 20 | The Elgin district was surveyed in 3 years and a descriptive memoir published . |
| 21 | This year , we plan to spend a record £120 million on exploration programmes in 13 countries and a further £180 million on developing new fields . |
| 22 | The correlation between the two sets of risk ratings is of comparable magnitude to the correlations when a subset of the data from Studies 2 and 3 was compared with data from a similar rating scales study ( Groeger & Chapman 1992 , in preparation a ) , r(22)=0.66 for risk ratings , r(22)=0.71 for accident estimates and r(22)=0.83 for speed ratings ( though risk and accident estimates are on a 20 point scale in one case and a 7 point scale in the other ) . |
| 23 | A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else . |
| 24 | ‘ People can either do the walk in one spell or a bit every weekend , though they should complete it in a 12-month period ’ said Bill . |
| 25 | Thirty exit points would take no more room than the entrance to a multi-storey car park and the tunnel would carry one three-lane ‘ layer ’ of cars travelling in one direction and a bottom ‘ layer ’ travelling in the other . |
| 26 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 27 | They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other . |
| 28 | Namely a 30.4 per cent reduction in GNP in one year and a rise of 500 per cent in unemployment and a 73.5 per cent fall in exports , due to the collapse of the eastern former Russian satellite state economies . |
| 29 | He looked almost dapper , with a half-dozen medals balanced by a rose in one lapel and a dazzling white handkerchief in his breast pocket . |
| 30 | This common domain might be a key in one relation and a non-key attribute ( called a foreign key ) in another . |