Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 2 | Then , after a spell in prison , I took charge of a lodging house called La America . |
| 3 | But a stroke left him paralysed , and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law . |
| 4 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 5 | The effect of the Sky losses will look even more dramatic after a change in accounting policy which takes them directly out of the profit and loss account . |
| 6 | According to Carol Evans ' detailed analysis ( 1991 ) , the land-based arms industry was not planned : it emerged after a slump in demand for machine tools and other capital goods . |
| 7 | The most prominent of these was Hsu Hsin-liang who returned secretly to Taiwan in September after a decade in exile in the United States . |
| 8 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 9 | An 82-year-old retired commercial traveller died on February 13 after a fall in North Tees General Hospital , an inquest heard . |
| 10 | The three-year-old was released after a night in hospital . |
| 11 | Only after a course in fungus recognition . |
| 12 | In 1947 , when the school leaving age rose to fifteen after a battle in Cabinet , the pressures on the junior school rose further , since the difference between grammar schools and others was diminished , as there was only one year between them , not two . |
| 13 | After a year in hospital the pension may be reduced still further , but if your parent is treated as having a dependant this will be taken into account . |
| 14 | They grew a new ‘ ear ’ on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs ; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece , leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager ; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts , the right side of her face was hideously scarred , her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig . |
| 15 | After a year in office , the Thatcher government found itself presiding over mass de-industrialization , inflation of more than 20 per cent , a rise in public spending , and the prospects of a slump . |
| 16 | AFTER a year in prison , former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is studying the Moslem faith , skipping prison food in favour of canned tuna , and receiving visitors ranging from Whitney Houston to Spike Lee . |
| 17 | So after a fortnight in hospital , minus the kidney I had arrived with , Thursday 's child went home . |
| 18 | After a month in custody , John Carter appeared at Wantage on 26 August , 1893 , charged with the murder of his wife . |
| 19 | The sum involved , around £3,500 , was small change compared with what was to follow , but after a month in prison Chiesa began to talk . |
| 20 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 21 | Winter maintains , ‘ People find it much harder to move back into child care after a period in adult care because they tend to be consumed with either the Children Act or community care legislation . |
| 22 | But if a person with a roughly similar disability is socially isolated , or the home environment has actually precipitated or exacerbated the illness , then they will be gravely handicapped in attempting to return to normal life after a period in hospital . |
| 23 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 24 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |
| 25 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 26 | What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation . |
| 27 | An armed robbery has ended with a high speed police chase on one of the region 's motorways.Police marksmen were among officers from four police forces involved in the incident which began after a shooting in South Wales . |
| 28 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
| 29 | These statistics account for all discharges from all the Finnish hospitals after a stay in hospital for more than one day . |
| 30 | There were 56353 discharges after a stay in hospital because of pancreatitis in Finland between 1970–89 . |