Example sentences of "in a [noun] be [num] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Americans that I have spoken to tell me that the average amount of fluid they use in a case is 24 to 32 oz .
2 The large and unmistakable clay phallus for insertion in a wall is one of the first things to greet us as we enter the exhibition .
3 Players with the same name on either side is comparatively common , especially in domestic cricket where two members of the same family may play for different teams , but two players on each side sharing surnames in a Test is one of those statistics whose arrival is well overdue .
4 Similarly , the falsificationist must prefer the claim that the velocity of light in a vacuum is 299.8 × 10 6 metres per second to the less-precise claim that it is about 300 × 10 6 metres per second , just because the first is more falsifiable than the second .
5 Early fits in a baby are one of a number of children 's disorders that we ca n't yet fully explain .
6 But the erm chances of dying in an operation are one in one thousand eight hundred .
7 Chances of dying in an operation are one in one thousand eight hundred .
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