Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 2 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 3 | and can be preceded by ( e.g. ‘ squelch ’ , ‘ bulge ’ ) ; is never preceded by , and is preceded by only in a few words and names , e.g. ‘ Welsh ’ , ‘ Walsh ’ , . |
| 4 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 5 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 6 | In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? " |
| 7 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 8 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |
| 9 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 10 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |
| 11 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 12 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 13 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd have half the police force here in a few minutes if we did , ’ she said . |
| 15 | When I am tired and think , ‘ I do n't want to do this any more ’ I just tell myself that it might not be here in a few months and that there 's probably a million who would kill to be where I am . |
| 16 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 17 | it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people . |
| 18 | But the orphans are still there in the same orphanages and some people at least are not going to forget them . |
| 19 | Because that was a politician 's I 'll play that trailer for the Sunday breakfast show again in a few moments and get you terribly excited . |
| 20 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 21 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |