Example sentences of "in a [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 2 | ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work . |
| 3 | go on in a biting it a are |
| 4 | In a split-second I would build on this particle of noise and construct an idea of the kind of world that could produce such a phenomenon . |
| 5 | Instead of finding out how many twelfths in a third we could find out how many twelfths in two sixths could n't we that 'd be a bit easier . |
| 6 | In a third he concentrated on serfdom . |
| 7 | In an influential it controversial essay , Thomas Laqueur has proposed that relatively recently in our history there occurred a radical reinterpretation of the female body . |