Example sentences of "seven [noun] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system goes back to the sixth century , when the founder of the Persian Empire , the great Cyrus , presented seven cities in northern Anatolia to Pytharchos ( see p. 18 ; FGrHist . |
| 2 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 3 | Sniper bullets whizzed overhead as a British army chaplain Carson Nicholson buried seven Croats in grey blankets next to the twin-towered monastery in Guca Gora . |
| 4 | Flown home by ambulance plane , he spent seven weeks in intensive care in Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | I wish to applaud here , publicly , the great strength and courage of our own members who supported their Association in the face of the highest level of intimidation which I have encountered in my twenty seven years in industrial relations . |
| 6 | Seven figures in military uniforms strode through the clouds of smoke and across the rubble into the chamber . |
| 7 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 8 | The gene for subunit I of the cytochrome oxidase ( coxI ) , for example , contains 16 introns in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina and up to seven introns in various strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , but none in the common laboratory strain of Neurospora crassa ( 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ) . |
| 9 | Yet this has one interesting feature , an interpolation of seven bars in triple time ; similarly one of Byrd 's five-part ‘ In nomines ’ in the same manuscript ends with a dance-like section in triple time . |