Example sentences of "in a [noun] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the chemotherapy was poorly tolerated , the patient went into a gradual decline , and died in a hospice three months later . |
| 2 | He woke in a fury two hours afterward , and said that she had upset his rhythm and that he had to make some calls . |
| 3 | The first team will train , while the Stags entertain Mowden Park in a Durham Second Teams Cup semi-final . |
| 4 | She met her boyfriend Barry in a pub two years ago . |
| 5 | It is a wee bit disconcerting when you can hear yourself think in a pub these days . |
| 6 | The British girl held out until being caught in a hold 30 seconds from the end . |
| 7 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 8 | To give the House another example of a fault in the management of the prison service , I remember taking part in a case several years ago involving a prison breakout . |
| 9 | Instead , he had put up in a hotel some miles out of town , high up on the Downs , which owed more to Laura Ashley than to Nancy Astor . |
| 10 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 11 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 12 | MOTHER Teresa , who broke three ribs in a fall ten days ago , has been released from hospital in Rome . |
| 13 | Two engines were found in a lake nine miles from the disaster area . |
| 14 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 15 | MV Well , we do have a gutter press here but , of course , it is new , and in a while these things which are , for the moment , sensational , will go back to their proper place . |
| 16 | Margaret McLaughlin : found murdered in a glen 20 years ago |
| 17 | We crossed the Sacramento on the bleached bones of an old dead pine and pitched camp in a meadow 6,000 feet above sea level , under the summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 18 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 19 | All in a space fifteen feet by twelve . |
| 20 | If America continues to produce municipal solid waste at present rates for the next 1,000 years , the whole lot will still be containable in a space 100 yards deep and 30 miles square . |
| 21 | Rochford ran in a couple more tries , condemning Chelmsford to a fifth defeat in nine league games . |
| 22 | Q I have kept six Clown Loaches in a 36″ x 15″ x 15″ tank with small tetras for over two years , with no problems . |
| 23 | For the couple made their wedding vows while floating in a balloon 600 feet above the ground in Orlando , Florida , in a sensational start to their married life . |
| 24 | In a sense all techniques of distraction are techniques of attention switching . |
| 25 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 26 | In a sense both writers are , in their very different ways , probably correct . |
| 27 | Berlin was a potential ‘ flash-point ’ and few believed that Germany could remain divided forever , but in a sense both sides were satisfied with what they held : Russia had its defence glacis in the East ; America had given confidence and protection to Western Europe through Marshall aid and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) . |
| 28 | In a sense large firms are supposed to act as financial intermediaries for their related suppliers through for example the provision of trade credit or through the re-sale of capital equipment . |
| 29 | The first sighting of Filden I by Venturous was in a position six miles off Dunkirk from where she was shadowed at a discreet distance with radio reports of her movements being sent at regular intervals by Venturous to the shore watchers in the vicinity of North Foreland . |
| 30 | ‘ My dear fellow , to meet in a bar two days running hardly constitutes a relationship of note . |