Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 10 minutes we had spied the whole Countrywatch patch . |
| 4 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 7 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ In three weeks we will have the best ship , sir , and the finest crew in England . |
| 9 | It is quite preposterous that in 35 minutes we shall reach the end of this debate on banding , a matter of considerable interest to my constituents and , I suspect , to many other constituents in London and the south-east . |
| 10 | Here in five minutes we have combined an art and nature study experience . |
| 11 | In five minutes we 'll come back and take you to the medical centre for more tests . ’ |
| 12 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 13 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |
| 14 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 15 | Erm , we tend to get it it 's just an exercise , but it proved a point that even in twenty minutes we were , we 'd only got through only got through to doing ideals , |
| 16 | I 've got a picture of the way I want us to play , and if I can get that picture in 15 heads we 've got a chance of playing the way we want to . |
| 17 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 18 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 19 | The caption read : ‘ The sign the young provocateurs agreed upon — in two minutes we shall start the attack . ’ |
| 20 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
| 21 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 22 | ‘ In two hours we are at Pot'ma Transit . |
| 23 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 24 | In two experiments we recorded the sexual response of male and female auklets to realistic opposite-sex models with crest ornaments experimentally shortened and lengthened within the range of natural variation . |
| 25 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
| 26 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 27 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 28 | In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers . |
| 29 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |