Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was destroyed by fire in 1045 and a new cathedral was begun soon after . |
| 2 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 3 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 4 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 5 | To have faced only one Mrs Gould in eleven and a half years shows how much , not how little , television let Mrs Thatcher get away with . |
| 6 | Open war was declared against Scotland in 1542 and against France in 1543 ; campaigns were mounted against the Scots in 1542 , 1544 , and 1545 ; a small expedition was sent to Flanders in 1543 and a large one to France in 1544 . |
| 7 | In eight and a half years , Labour under Neil Kinnock has worked miracles in divesting itself of policies which , as well as being fundamentally unpopular , had no obvious connection with our central beliefs . |
| 8 | A , Diana Rigg , James Bond movie , B , Kathleen Turner , Crimes of Passion , C , Kim Basinger , Basinger in Eight and a Half Weeks |
| 9 | I mean I was in eight and a half hours yesterday , eight hours a day before |
| 10 | he 'll hit the ground in eight and a half seconds ! |
| 11 | Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 . |
| 12 | In 1767 the import and movement of grain was freed from restrictions ; while the craft guilds were suppressed in 1770 and a great survey of landownership begun in 1781 . |
| 13 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 14 | Champion for a second time in 1983 , he teamed up with Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1986 and a year later was champion for the third time . |
| 15 | The mother of two children , a girl born in 1986 and a boy born in 1989 , was living with the father of the boy when both children suffered minor non-accidental injury . |
| 16 | Fears of religious extremism were also revived by calls to turn the 6th century cathedral of St Sophia , converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum since 1934 , into a mosque once more , and by attempts in April 1989 to introduce segregated bus services for women students in the city of Konya , 220 km south of Ankara , where fundamentalists controlled the local council . |
| 17 | ‘ Budgie ’ was Palace 's extrovert and excellent goalkeeper through the period in which Palace sought and grasped the 2nd Division championship in 1978–79 and a stable security in Division One the following year . |
| 18 | This changed in 1980 after a major died in one of two shooting attacks against soldiers . |
| 19 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 20 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 21 | Stimulated by a Green Paper ( Cmd 7891 ) in 1980 and a White Paper ( Cmd 9510 ) in 1985 the debate attracted considerable interest . |
| 22 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 23 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 24 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 25 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 26 | In Britain , the first census of modern times was begun in 1801 and a series of government reports resulted in various inquiries into the state of the nation . |
| 27 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 28 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 29 | It is a hardy , thrifty , long-lived mountain breed which was first recognised in 1856 ; a breed society was formed in 1895 and a herdbook established in 1926 . |
| 30 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |