Example sentences of "in a [det] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes . |
| 2 | In a few rings one of the carbons is replaced by an atom of oxygen , nitrogen or sulphur which can cause problems . |
| 3 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 4 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
| 5 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |