Example sentences of "in a [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNSCEAR ( 1977 ) estimates that in a million liveborn children in the first generation of offspring of a population exposed to 10 mGy ( 1 rad ) at low dose rate during the generation , there would be 63 genetic diseases . |
| 2 | ‘ That remark , ’ he said , ‘ has created bitterness in a million African hearts . ’ |
| 3 | She was a fund of knowledge in a thousand unexpected ways . |
| 4 | And waking suddenly like that , you woke in a thousand different places at once , all the places that you 'd ever been . |
| 5 | ‘ We in the West regard infant crying as normal , and in a thousand different ways condition our children to associate babies with bawling . |
| 6 | It is more like a gemstone which has been cut and faceted , so that each way it is turned shows a different angle , catching the light in a thousand different ways . |
| 7 | I do n't know what 's going to happen , so , Carrie , I must say it — I 've implied it in a thousand different ways for months now — I … |
| 8 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 9 | All the time she wildly imagines him being unfaithful to her in a thousand trivial ways . |
| 10 | His black hair lies in a hundred casual curls . |
| 11 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 12 | ‘ Until the Butler Act began to take effect in the 70 's and 80's , Britain was outstanding among industrial countries as the home and fount of nepotism in a hundred subtle forms . ’ |
| 13 | During the most active phase , from March 1811 to February 1812 , 1,000 frames were destroyed in a hundred separate attacks , and a worried government responded by making machine breaking a capital felony and despatching 2,000 troops to Nottingham . |
| 14 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 15 | Just before Christmas when she was twelve , she had her hair plaited in a hundred little plaits with a bead on the end of each plait . |
| 16 | For those seeking bhavana , it is ready to be discerned in a hundred daily occurrences : it will be manifested in a small or generous action ; and there is a joy in the mere searching for this bhavana in the everyday world . |
| 17 | You can use one guitar in a hundred different ways if you can hear the sound . |
| 18 | Truly , history can be written in a hundred different ways . |
| 19 | Truly , reviews can be written in a hundred different ways . |
| 20 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 21 | Such materials may be used in foundations , superstructure , roads , and drainage ; if an elemental breakdown is employed , in a dozen different elements . |
| 22 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 23 | Everyone knew that delayed shock could affect people in a dozen different ways . |