Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 2 | Feeding and nutrition of horses is one of the few areas where independent specialist advice is quite difficult to find even though feeding is one of the most important aspects of horse management . |
| 3 | Critics noticed that he was one of the few artists genuinely enthusiastic about new talent . |
| 4 | People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available . |
| 5 | I think that soaps and crime series are two of the few arenas where moral questions are debated . |
| 6 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 7 | During vacations a doctor will attend the Health Centre for a few sessions only each week . |
| 8 | She awoke with a jerk some time later , and lay staring blankly around her , for a few seconds quite unable to get her bearings . |
| 9 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 10 | It was a time in 1941 that he will not forget as a few hours later fifteen year old Tom witnessed the ‘ Clydebank Blitz . ’ |
| 11 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |
| 12 | Within a few years over 800 exchange lines and 300 private lines were in use operating from the new headquarters of the amalgamated telephone companies , the National Telephone Company Headquarters at 13 Royal Exchange Square . |
| 13 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 14 | In retaliation for confiscation of its sugar mills and oil refineries ( 6 August ) , its banks ( 17 September ) and the majority of its larger companies ( 13 October ) , the United States announced an embargo on Cuba on 19 October , covering all goods except non-subsidised foodstuffs and medical supplies ( within a few months even these items were included ) . |
| 15 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 16 | Until a few years ago this was deadly serious stuff : ‘ The Americans would ram us if we came close — they knew it took us longer to get repaired . ’ |
| 17 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 18 | Until a few years ago this was the uncontested domain of surgeons because of the poor results of pharmacological treatment . |
| 19 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 20 | A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible . |
| 21 | Trains can link Newcastle and London in a few minutes over two and a half hours . |
| 22 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 23 | On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer . |
| 24 | Among the few topics consistently under-represented was Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and no evidence suggested that the languages and varieties of language of all ethnic groups were being built upon . |