Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Grub 's up but prices are down in two culturally diverse London restaurants . |
2 | SSP is payable for up to 28 weeks in a PIW , but most periods of sickness are over in three weeks . |
3 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow . |
4 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
5 | I 'm on in five minutes , that old ass slowed me down . ’ |
6 | " He said he 'd be along in ten minutes . " |
7 | The war will be over in nine or ten months at the most . ’ |
8 | But he said he did n't mind as long as he was helping the war effort , and anyway it would all be over in six months and he could go back to selling firewood . |
9 | Maybe it wo n't , and my father says it 'll be over in six months anyway , so none of them will have to go . ’ |
10 | Again , in the late 1920s Max Born told a group of scientists visiting Göttingen that ‘ physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . ’ |
11 | Then again , in 1928 , physicist and Nobel prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Göttingen University , " Physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . " |
12 | The leaf season should be over in 2 weeks , when a resumption of normal service is promised . |
13 | The show 'll be over in ten minutes . |
14 | I said you would be over in 30 minutes , but that was an hour ago . ’ |
15 | I 'll be off in ten minutes . ’ |
16 | We 'll be up in five minutes . ’ |
17 | But the test was , apparently , extremely effective : for if after this exercise the ground was judged right and the sowing proceeded satisfactorily , the husbandman expected the barley ‘ to be up in three days ’ . |
18 | My son will be out in six months and Mrs Gillick will be taking us under her wing in the absence of your good self . |
19 | Official viewing figures will be out in two weeks ' time . |
20 | I 'll be out in two days , I do n't care . ’ |
21 | I think it is appalling that this man could be out in 3½ years . |
22 | The memoirs will be out in 1966 . |
23 | He could be out in three years if all went well . |
24 | ‘ You 'll be out in three , then . |
25 | She 'll be out in ten minutes , but I 'll pinch some loose skin just to make sure there 's no reaction . ’ |
26 | He 'll be out in ten years … |
27 | Rather unfortunate because er er of course you d I ca n't tell you which ones I 've done , which ones I have n't done , but all assignments will be back in six one eight , final year assignments , will be back in six one eight erm at some point early on Friday morning . |
28 | Rather unfortunate because er er of course you d I ca n't tell you which ones I 've done , which ones I have n't done , but all assignments will be back in six one eight , final year assignments , will be back in six one eight erm at some point early on Friday morning . |
29 | Said he 'd be back in six weeks . |
30 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |