Example sentences of "in [art] [noun pl] [prep] a few " in BNC.

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1 I say this in the context of a situation which should have your whole nation incensed ; because of a terrible insult which is to be perpetrated by the Westminster Government for a further 30 years in the interests of a few Englishmen .
2 The fry remain in the streams for a few weeks , feeding on the flush of insects and crustaceans that appear in the warming waters .
3 The lad should have been put in the cells for a few hours to cool off .
4 1981 : The year of medley madness — over 20 arrive in the shops within a few weeks , the tally including ‘ Stars On 45 Vols 1 & 2 ’ , ‘ Hollie Daze ’ , ‘ Beach Boy Gold ’ , ‘ A Tribute To The Punks Of '76 ’ and a ‘ Supremes Medley ’ .
5 The essentially one-day match contract for Chris Cowdrey is seen as rather ‘ something or nothing ’ in the words of a few Sophia punters .
6 This means that the State helps the community in resisting the amassing of wealth in the hands of a few members , because of the disruptive implication of such a process .
7 Economic growth in Latin America has accumulated benefits in the hands of a few , rather than distributing them as predicted by the modernists .
8 ‘ It concentrates power in the hands of a few , necessitates a military-style secrecy and undermines the principles of human liberty .
9 The more power in Europe lay in the hands of a few strong States , the more a State system emerged in which the position of each was established through the recognition of the others .
10 The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners .
11 This eventually results in ‘ monopoly capitalism ’ , where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few very large enterprises .
12 Social justice , according to Belloc , could be attained only by destroying the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few , which bred inevitable contradictions between the values of self-respect and self-help preached in capitalist society and the material condition of the mass of the population which rendered it impossible for them to practice such principles .
13 Elite theories accept that power is concentrated in the hands of a few , but deny that the power derives from wealth .
14 As Veljanovski points out , ‘ if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners who buy Rolls Royces and caviar , then allocative efficiency will be consistent with the poor starving and the economy 's productive capacity channelled into the manufacture of these luxury items .
15 These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends .
16 Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting .
17 British industry is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few producers , and oligopoly seems to be the commonest market
18 A simple hierarchy puts decision-making authority permanently in the hands of a few people .
19 The Labour im ownership of the mass media tends to be concentrated in the hands of a few companies .
20 The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders .
21 The report effectively admitted flaws in the structure and proposed new machinery to avoid concentration of power in the hands of a few .
22 From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands .
23 More generous approaches to the question of emancipation were to be found not only in the many unofficial memoranda which were passing from hand to hand , but also in the minds of a few well-placed individuals whose views could hardly be ignored .
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