Styling: Attachment Icon Span

First thing first, thank you so much for the great plugin!

Quick question: I want to make the attachment count icon displayed in the topic list to be inline with the topic name, ie.

<–!p class=”bbp-attachments-count” title=”1 attachment”></p–>
<–!a class=”bbp-topic-permalink”></a–>

Something like that, is it possible to do it without changing the plugin’s file, say, putting code into my child theme’s function file?

Thank you so much for advising, much appreciated.

PS. Right now the situation is like this:
<–!span class=”bbp-attachments-count” title=”1 attachment”></span–>
<–!br></br–>
<–!a class=”bbp-topic-permalink”></a–>

So that makes white-space:nowrap fail, and I don’t even know where the break tag came from… :-O