Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] they " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In six weeks they were married , and ten months later I was born . ’
4 In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’
5 In 90 minutes they managed two shots at the Benfica goal and scored twice .
6 In three days they covered 400 miles .
7 In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs .
8 The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent .
9 In three years they are full and have to be emptied and washed out .
10 Sure they won one nil in fourteen minutes they were up one nil and France could n't score
11 Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork .
12 In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off .
13 In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights … from a base in Zagreb … to the devastated Saravejo .
14 In 124 couples the female partners smoked cigarettes , and in 236 couples they did not .
15 In twenty minutes they lost every officer except one .
16 Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third .
17 In four days they moved nine kilometres .
18 It is highly unlikely that any of the Pacific fish used in these tests had ever encountered a sea snake previously and in two instances they certainly could not have done so .
19 He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep .
20 In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay .
21 In two weeks they were all vandalized .
22 They either slept in a car or on the ground with a blanket , though in two days they would be far enough south for the nights to be warm .
23 In two days they climbed the two remaining plumb lines , the magnificent Centurion and The Shield .
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