Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 2 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 3 | Produced by TVS , Men of Science is now being shown in a few other areas for those not already suffering exophthalmos after an evening of Rising Damp , Cuffy , The Avengers and Pro-Celebrity Golf |
| 4 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 5 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 6 | The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire . |
| 7 | Moreover , large-scale manufacture tended to be concentrated in a few industrial areas , of which St Petersburg , Moscow , and the major cities of Poland , the Ukraine and the South were the most significant , and the plants themselves tended to be markedly larger than in the West . |
| 8 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 9 | Germany 's coal reserves were huge and were concentrated in a few large fields . |
| 10 | Women 's employment has always been , and remains , concentrated in a few occupational categories ( see Hakim , 1979 : Joseph , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 12 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |
| 13 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 14 | Had she also changed in a few short months ? |