Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 2 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
| 3 | This interest has now received a further stimulus from the events of the past few years in Europe . |
| 4 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 5 | The drama of the past few days in Kabul has highlighted the two central problems of modern Afghanistan : one is the difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups , Tajiks , Uzbeks , Hazaras and others who occupy the northern and western parts of the country ; the other is the tension between modernising élites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural population . |
| 6 | Not being detached for service in America , he probably spent most of the next few years in London . |