Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 90 minutes they managed two shots at the Benfica goal and scored twice . |
| 2 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 3 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 4 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 5 | In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights … from a base in Zagreb … to the devastated Saravejo . |
| 6 | In 124 couples the female partners smoked cigarettes , and in 236 couples they did not . |
| 7 | In twenty minutes they lost every officer except one . |
| 8 | Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third . |
| 9 | In four days they moved nine kilometres . |
| 10 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 11 | In two days they climbed the two remaining plumb lines , the magnificent Centurion and The Shield . |