Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | If 2 carriers have children , there 's a one in 4 chance their child will have normal blood cells , a one in 2 chance they 'll have children who also be carriers anda one in 4 chance of them having a sickle cell sufferer . |
| 3 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
| 4 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 5 | Who knows , in six months I may be dead . |
| 6 | In six weeks I 'll be able to do stuff like table tennis . |
| 7 | Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one . |
| 8 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 9 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 10 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ In three weeks we will have the best ship , sir , and the finest crew in England . |
| 13 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 14 | This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ? |
| 15 | If you 're doing both then that 's your total income and if you did that in three weeks I would think you 'd be very happy with that . |
| 16 | In three days I shall rise again . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In three days I will visit you again . |
| 18 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 19 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 20 | It is quite preposterous that in 35 minutes we shall reach the end of this debate on banding , a matter of considerable interest to my constituents and , I suspect , to many other constituents in London and the south-east . |
| 21 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 22 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 23 | In 18 months he 'll be even better . |
| 24 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll kill you now , ’ Woolley said flatly , ‘ and stick your fat body in my plane , and in ten minutes I 'll throw you out behind the German lines , unless you get me my booze and my scarves . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 27 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously it would be good to look at more examples from different cultures , but it 's such a huge subject , in ten weeks you can only really deal with the tip of the iceberg . |
| 29 | In five hours she 'd be marking Miguel O'Brien — a gnat trying to curb an elephant . |
| 30 | In five minutes we 'll come back and take you to the medical centre for more tests . ’ |