Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 2 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 3 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 4 | Firms can choose to concentrate their resources in a few countries and emphasise exports to other markets , or they can disperse their resources and emphasise FDI . |
| 5 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 6 | The result was pale and sickly , stress lines showing how much she would look like her mother in a few years ' time . |
| 7 | In the meantime , archery had retained its appeal in a few places around the country , two of them being the neighbouring Ayrshire towns of Irvine and Kilwinning , in both of which contests were held annually . |
| 8 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had to sum up our philosophy in a few words , it would be : ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ , ’ says Margaret . |