Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] it " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 …
3 DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities .
4 but er that was all in six weeks it 's beautiful
5 In six seats it finished second , with a best performance of 22 per cent in Bethnal Green East .
6 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 ) .
7 Although in three cases it was recognised that the operation was technically unsatisfactory and early rebleeding was encountered in each case , in the rest there appeared to be no obvious explanation for these surgical failures .
8 Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure .
9 Do that in three weeks it 's still not too bad .
10 This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ?
11 In 11 patients it was difficult to justify repeat biopsy especially when they had shown a very good clinical response to gluten withdrawal .
12 In 2 days some benefit was detectable : in 4 days it was obvious .
13 In 29 generations it is n't possible to move farther than 29 steps , in genetic space , away from the starting ancestor .
14 And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline .
15 In five minutes it 'll be the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline .
16 In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased .
17 In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other .
18 In one case it predicted the existence in interstellar space of a new molecule , HOC , before its physical detection .
19 In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination .
20 In both cases the camouflage is interfering with the natural elements , but in one case it is attacking the whole shape , while in the other it is blotting out the appendages .
21 In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back .
22 For example , in one case it was held that electrical contractors , as such , had no right to complain that a local authority had not followed proper tendering procedures in letting out a contract for the installation of central heating .
23 In one case it 's a feeling of vague discontent .
24 er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out .
25 He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat .
26 In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses .
27 In one minute it was over the target area .
28 Yeah and the problem is that that because you have to look in one position it means that that the whole thing becomes boring and and your interest starts to drift .
29 In one sentence it was ‘ The objectives of US policy can only be attained by such French action that will satisfy the nationalist aspirations of the peoples of Indo-China ’ .
30 In one sense it 's very much like good investigative journalism , ’ explains Malcolm Smart , Head of Research at the IS .
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