Example sentences of "in a [det] [noun pl] they " in BNC.

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1 In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports .
2 While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians .
3 Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses .
4 In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation .
5 The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist .
6 The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung .
7 Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long .
8 In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view .
9 In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations .
10 In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets .
11 In a few moments they heard a car start up and drive away .
12 In a few moments they were alone .
13 The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number .
14 In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’
15 The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent .
16 It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas .
17 Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day .
18 But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism .
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