Example sentences of "in the [noun] of an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun beams down an astonishing amount of energy to our planet — one year 's global energy use in the space of an hour . |
| 2 | They began the final day on 122 for two , needing only 79 more to complete their historic triumph , but the dreams of their players , officials and supporters at Kensington Oval and the millions back home watching live TV coverage in late afternoon disappeared in the space of an hour and 40 minutes as eight wickets tumbled for 26 . |
| 3 | Thomas Stanford , in his book Leaves from a Madeira Garden , states ( with regard to the changing climate and scenery ) that in Madeira one can travel in the space of an hour from a sub-tropical region to the Riviera , from the Riviera to Bournemouth , from Bournemouth to Caernarvonshire , and from Caernarvonshire to the Alps . |
| 4 | The situation was to deteriorate further in the space of an hour when first Bernhard Langer and then Seve Ballesteros lost out to Chip Beck and Paul Azinger respectively . |
| 5 | Well we 're asking people to enter in teams of four to come and plant as many trees a they can in the space of an hour . |
| 6 | I think the odds are that Rich was showing off his new toff as a pal to Philip and throwing in the favour of an audition along the way . |
| 7 | A member of staff requested a thesis written by a Spanish researcher , who was funded by a Spanish university , but who had undertaken her research on plant specimens in the Herbarium of an institution in Germany , and elsewhere . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it was a bomb , ’ said Mrs Darne in the tone of an expert . |
| 9 | ‘ Ten , ’ said Ivy , in the tone of an editor saying that this correspondence was now closed . |
| 10 | The accountants ' cause received a small but unexpected boost last month when the California Supreme Court ruled that only clients could sue accounting firms for alleged professional negligence in the course of an audit . |
| 11 | Luyt remembers it being set very quickly , in the course of an hour or so ) . |
| 12 | He will be on first-name terms with many of them , and if he fails to contact his supporters individually in the course of an election campaign he will risk losing their votes . |
| 13 | If the electorate were even moderately sophisticated there would be no point in contriving in the course of an election campaign all those gimmicky photo opportunities for leading politicians in which the issue is nothing and the image is everything . |
| 14 | IBOA Assistant General Secretary , Larry Broderick in the course of an address to the ICTU Conference on 8th July with ICTU General Secretary , Peter Cassells in background . |
| 15 | In the course of an afternoon he usually managed to finish a medium-sized painting , although larger paintings took two or three sessions . |
| 16 | During the Second World War , there were cases when the morale of even veteran British Guardsmen suffered if , in the course of an action , they were aware that surgical attention might not be forthcoming for at least five hours . |
| 17 | Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist . |
| 18 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 19 | A librarian at Westminster , who took an extremely responsible attitude to dispersals , remarked in the course of an article : |
| 20 | Where a false or misleading statement is made in the course of an estate agency business or a property development business , otherwise in providing conveyancing services , the person by whom the business is carried on shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 21 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 22 | He condemns her for trying this trick , which is followed by a terrible fall downstairs in the course of an attempt to end her pregnancy . |
| 23 | On October 19 1988 the Home Secretary issued directives to the BBC and IBA ‘ to refrain from broadcasting any matter which consists of or includes — any spoken words , whether in the course of an interview or discussion or otherwise by a person who appears or is heard … where ( a ) the person speaking … represents or purports to represent [ any organisation proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1984 or the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act 1978 and Sinn Fein , Republican Sinn Fein and the Ulster Defence Association ] or ( b ) the words support or solicit or invite support for such an organisation ’ . |
| 24 | The standard fee for giving an anaesthetic , judged by that earned by Dr. W. H. Miller in the course of an ear operation , was still one guinea . |
| 25 | ‘ The parties to this appeal are rightly agreed that whether or not Mr. Warner has a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ to refuse to answer the inspectors ' questions depends upon whether he is entitled to rely upon the public interest in protecting his source and that the test to be applied must be the same whether that question arises in judicial proceedings or in the course of an inquiry such as this . |
| 26 | If you find yourself changing your mind in the course of an answer , either cross out what you have written and start afresh , or , if there is no time for that , say frankly that you have changed your mind . |
| 27 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 28 | ‘ 7(1) In the course of an investigation into whether a person has committed an offence under section 4 or 5 of this Act a constable may , subject to the following provisions of this section and section 9 of this Act , require him — ( a ) to provide two specimens of breath for analysis by means of a device of a type approved by the Secretary of State , or ( b ) to provide a specimen of blood or urine for a laboratory test . |
| 29 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 30 | Parents and carers who are being less than co-operative in the course of an investigation should be made aware of this . |