Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 2 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 3 | In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ] |
| 4 | As one Palestinian remarked : ‘ Many splits of the past few years have already been forgotten . |
| 5 | There are indications that this at last is changing , partly because of the court cases of the last few years . |
| 6 | The anxieties and misgivings of the past few days disappeared as though they had never been , as Johnny kissed her and touched her and told her of his need for her ; of his despair when she had not come to him . |
| 7 | The September issue of Harpers & Queen marks the start of the new fashion season : a time when we look ahead to the autumn and pinpoint the directions of the next few months . |
| 8 | As they rode leisurely through the thyme-scented , bee-humming air , Rincewind pondered on the experiences of the last few days . |
| 9 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
| 10 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
| 11 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 12 | The hot summers and mild winters of the last few years have added several of more unusual colonisers . |
| 13 | Attributing his illness to the mental stresses and strains of the last few months , they were ignorant of the true medical causes . |
| 14 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 15 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 16 | The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades . |
| 17 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 18 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |
| 19 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 20 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
| 21 | They had spent half an hour with the President , the Director sitting back and letting Rostov take him through all the details of the last few weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 23 | I would have thought it was obvious to anyone that he never thinks further than the pleasures of the next few minutes . |
| 24 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 25 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 26 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 27 | A long gossip about the adventures of the last few days , with some exaggeration as the wine flows about the strength of the winds and the size of the waves . |
| 28 | As the Minister who represents the area containing Wandsworth prison , may I suggest to the Minister that if the exchanges of the past few minutes were conveyed to BBC television 's ’ Yes Minister ’ they might indeed help to revive the Government 's fortunes ? |
| 29 | Robbie asked , her gesture encompassing the exchanges of the last few moments . |
| 30 | Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . |