Example sentences of "be [adj] in [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election .
2 Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively .
3 Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively .
4 Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her .
5 Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes .
6 I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’
7 ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart .
8 Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes .
9 Sufficiently powerful accelerators will be ready in a few years , and most physicists are confident that they will confirm the Salam-Weinberg theory .
10 On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ .
11 Green made another appeal in the Mercury in October 1793 , saying that his plan would be ready in a few weeks , but it was not in fact published until late in 1794 .
12 In what sense can a curator responsibly sign the acquisition declaration knowing full well that there is no guarantee that a floppy disc or tape will be readable in a few years even if pampered with executive class conservation treatment — acid-free packing , humidity- and temperature-controlled environment , and low ambient light levels ?
13 In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing .
14 It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact .
15 It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America .
16 An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost .
17 Then he , too , frowned and was beginning to say something when suddenly there was one sharp whimper and , although Sophie did her best , Sandy was dead in a few minutes .
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