Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 2 | The young members section has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years . |
| 3 | Mother Earth must be served , hence the explosion in ecology groups and Green Parties in the last few years . |
| 4 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 5 | They are available by mail order at about £15 and will be in shops in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | I think we should give Fairclough a pat on the back for his performances in the last few games . |
| 7 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 8 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 9 | BRITISH National Party leaflets calling for the re-introduction of hanging and forced repatriation will be sent to thousands of homes in the next few weeks . |
| 10 | A spokesman said there had been several raids on homes in the past few days by sneak thieves . |
| 11 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 12 | One such kennel is the Zarstøs Kennel , owned by Mr and Mrs L. and E. Anderson , who have produced some top winners in the last few years , the most famous of which is Int . |
| 13 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 14 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 15 | On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " . |
| 16 | It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years . |
| 17 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 18 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
| 19 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 20 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 21 | SUDANESE and Ethiopian government troops are preparing to launch an attack from the rear on embattled southern Sudanese rebels in the next few days , rebel spokesmen said yesterday . |
| 22 | With a projected increase in gas filling stations in the next few years , the private vehicle market will follow . |
| 23 | But , though it may have perfected the art of crisis management through long necessity , it will have to face some additional strains in the next few years . |
| 24 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 25 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune . |
| 27 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 28 | The Daily Mail , the Sun and many other such papers have contained a series of unpleasant , vituperative stories against individuals in the past few months . |
| 29 | His whole life had become a series of unanswered questions in the past few days . |
| 30 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |