Example sentences of "in a good [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 2 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 3 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 4 | For me a badly painted reflection fades away , while in a good painting it lies on the surface and itself creates a consistently advancing plane . |
| 5 | If she 's in a good mood she 'll time Ted 's egg by the 8.05 to Edinburgh ; on the other hand , on a bad day she 'll shout at Ted to make his own bloody breakfast and curse at Frieda for wasting good food on her plate . |
| 6 | Probably in a good mood you got ta carry on |
| 7 | Hope Adrian 's in a good mood You have n't seen what work he 's doing at the moment then , how does he know ? |
| 8 | In a good light she could pass for sixteen . |