Example sentences of "in [noun prp] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity . |
| 2 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 3 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
| 4 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 5 | In Goa a former union minister , B. P. Singh , was appointed Governor on March 15 . |
| 6 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 7 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 8 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 9 | In May a former deputy director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said that the USA would be violating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile ( ABM ) Treaty if it deployed a newly-tested missile tracking device as part of its " Star Wars " defence system . |
| 10 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 11 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 13 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 14 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 15 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 16 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 17 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 18 | De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter . |
| 19 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 20 | In October a former Minister , Charles Fiterman , withdrew formally from conference preparations , complaining about lack of internal democracy . |
| 21 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 22 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |
| 23 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 24 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 25 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
| 26 | ‘ I found myself in France a little more than six weeks after I enlisted . |
| 27 | Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier . |
| 28 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
| 29 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 30 | and I 'm not convinced , I am not convinced that they , that they are anywhere near the standard they used to be when they were last in Europe a few seasons ago |