Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester . |
| 2 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 3 | In therapeutic doses ( up to 4 g a day ) paracetamol undergoes glucuronidation and sulphation in the liver with only a small amount being metabolised by cytochromes to the toxic metabolite N -acetyl- p -benzoquinone imine , which is inactivated by hepatic glutathione . |
| 4 | In fact , there is no reason why ( e.g. ) homosexuals should not afford accountability and care to their partners , in the course of either a long relationship or a very short one . |
| 5 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
| 6 | There was about the seamen — every nerve in Blind Hugh 's body , which tended to vibrate in the presence of even a small amount of impure gold at fifty paces , screamed into his brain — the air of one anticipating imminent enrichment . |
| 7 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 8 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 9 | I have been in the House for only a short time , but since I have been here I have been involved in a number of private Bills . |
| 10 | He remained an active figure in the House until only a week ago . |
| 11 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 13 | Thus in the absence of either a deliberate misleading by Moorgate Mercantile or negligence on their part , no estoppel could be raised against them . |
| 14 | ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They had been buried in the bog for perhaps a century , until unearthed by the peat diggers . |
| 16 | The cash-strapped council this week cut home help services in the county to once a fortnight to make funds last until the new financial year in April . |
| 17 | Such large assemblages of young in the charge of only a few adults is known by the French word for a nursery — a creche . |
| 18 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 19 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 20 | House prices have been adjusting downwards in the South-east for over a year . |
| 21 | But she knew Ellen would write and that the letter would be in the nature of both a declaration and a justification . |
| 22 | For example , in the definition of when a company becomes insolvent for the purposes of disqualification of unfit directors of insolvent companies : see section 6(2) ( b ) ; and the application of the reporting provisions affecting administrative receivers as office holders in section 7(3) ( d ) and section 7(4) . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 24 | In the preamble to around a dozen eighteenth-century statutes prohibiting trade unionism in specific English trades , combinations are already described as unlawful , the purpose of the statute being to offer the employers the chance to secure quick , summary punishment . |
| 25 | Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty . |
| 26 | We finally reached the docks , and waited in the queue for only a short while , which was surprising because of the amount of cars which were there . |
| 27 | If a dealer has worked in the business for only a few weeks , the client has no way of telling whether he is senior or not , and some licensed dealers have taken advantage of this . |
| 28 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 29 | Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits , and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighbourhood of even a small warren . |
| 30 | They say the body was probably in the compost for about a week . |