Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 3 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 4 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 5 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 6 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
| 7 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 8 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 9 | In 257 cases of violence , 370 attackers were identified : in 190 cases they were Inkatha supporters , in 84 they were police and in 13 they were ANC supporters . |
| 10 | Who knows , in six months I may be dead . |
| 11 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 12 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 13 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 14 | The week afloat in Nidri is spent with up to 12 other Cobra 850 yachts in flotilla ; in six days you see most of the highlights of the two week flotilla cruise . |
| 15 | In six weeks they were married , and ten months later I was born . ’ |
| 16 | but er that was all in six weeks it 's beautiful |
| 17 | In six weeks I 'll be able to do stuff like table tennis . |
| 18 | Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly . |
| 19 | In six seats it finished second , with a best performance of 22 per cent in Bethnal Green East . |
| 20 | Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one . |
| 21 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 22 | In 10 minutes we had spied the whole Countrywatch patch . |
| 23 | In 10 games he has scored 136 points , the most in the land by some way . |
| 24 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 25 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 26 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 27 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 28 | In this particular control group nine patients suffered from diarrhoea , 15 patients had spastic colon , 10 suffered from gastritis , one patient had Wegener 's granulomatosis , in 10 patients we diagnosed diverticulosis and five had carcinoma of different origin . |
| 29 | In 90 minutes they managed two shots at the Benfica goal and scored twice . |
| 30 | In three dimensions it is sufficient to define three primary states of remoteness , transition and inserted ; with perhaps , for simplicity , a number of transition states or a single touching group ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |