Example sentences of "in [art] few [noun pl] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 2 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 3 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 4 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 5 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 6 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 7 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 8 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 9 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |