Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] few [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But in the first few feet the delight of winter flying , even in an open cockpit , was apparent . |
| 32 | In the next few minutes the small parties moved in quick spurts from the deep shadow of one warehouse to the next black patch of cover . |
| 33 | In the next few days the Governor was out among the people , and newspaper reports spoke of ‘ the friendliest reception everywhere ’ . |
| 34 | In the next few days the family will arrange for her to have a check-up at the Royal Manchester Childrens ' Hospital , where she will become an outpatient . |
| 35 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 36 | In the next few years no one would try to temper this vision or even to relate it to reality . |
| 37 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 38 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 39 | In the next few weeks no fewer than thirty-eight aircraft were discovered with fatigue cracks present in the stabiliser rear spar top chord . |
| 40 | In the next few weeks the size of the picket increased , reaching 2,500 on 23 June . |
| 41 | In the next few weeks the scientists of the West were split into two groups : should or should they not try to make an H-bomb ? |
| 42 | In the next few weeks the writing of that book was to be a lifebelt . |
| 43 | IN THE NEXT few weeks the common toads of Britain ( Bufo bufo ) will converge upon lakes and ponds intent on reproduction . |
| 44 | In the next few weeks the first lucky 10 will take delivery of the fatest road car in the world . |
| 45 | In 1877 a book was published entitled Switzerland 's Development into a Unitary State , so the trend is long term ; yet in the last few decades the country has undergone large-scale centralisation . |
| 46 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 47 | In the last few weeks an obscure speed path that was constraining 40MHz yield was identified and stripped out . |
| 48 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 49 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 50 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 51 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 52 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 53 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 54 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 55 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 56 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 57 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 58 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
| 59 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
| 60 | Over the last few months the republic had been buoyed by waves of euphoria . |