Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] in [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge .
2 Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes .
3 Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools .
4 Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious , purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations .
5 Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations . ’
6 ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet .
7 The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words .
8 That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds .
9 The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days .
10 From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people .
11 Even he , however , confessed that it was difficult to control men who had not been accustomed to organization , whose " idea was that once a union was formed everything should be put right in a few hours " .
12 Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days .
13 Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars .
14 Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days .
15 The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments .
16 to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith .
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