Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] of an " 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 | ‘ We once made love on the spur of the moment in the loo of an aircraft , ’ she recalls . |
| 9 | ‘ Ten , ’ said Ivy , in the tone of an editor saying that this correspondence was now closed . |
| 10 | ‘ No , it was a bomb , ’ said Mrs Darne in the tone of an expert . |
| 11 | The world with Palin is armchair travel on the scale of the grand tour , in the company of an agreeable guide . |
| 12 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 13 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |
| 14 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 15 | Homosexual ( both gay and lesbian ) and bisexual young people may find the going less tough in the company of an experienced counsellor . |
| 16 | Even more dramatically , Darren Coulbourn , the white boy from Burnage High School who murdered Ahmed Iqbal Ullah and triumphantly proclaimed ‘ I 've killed a Paki ’ , was also known to have collaborated with an Asian boy in burning down the art block and ‘ used to get into trouble ’ at school ( as the Burnage Report puts it ) in the company of an Afro-Caribbean boy . |
| 17 | In 1755 Bach made a decisive break with the inward-looking Lutheran traditions of his forebears by travelling to Italy , possibly in the company of an Italian lady singer , where he took counterpoint lessons with Padre Martini in Bologna , composed several Roman Catholic church works , and secured a Milanese patron , Count Agostino Litta , through whose efforts he became ‘ second organist ’ at Milan cathedral in 1760 . |
| 18 | ‘ I would like to speak to any spectators who were at that match — particularly if they remember seeing a young girl in the company of an older man . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 22 | Analysis of Prime Ministers ' involvement in parliamentary debates shows that in the course of an average year they will participate in six debates and make six statements on policy , usually on the economy , foreign affairs , and government business . |
| 23 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | In the course of an afternoon he usually managed to finish a medium-sized painting , although larger paintings took two or three sessions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A librarian at Westminster , who took an extremely responsible attitude to dispersals , remarked in the course of an article : |
| 28 | Luyt remembers it being set very quickly , in the course of an hour or so ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |