Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er but er we got to know them eventually , but for the first few weeks , whilst we were in Devon , I think the five foreigners sort of got landed . |
| 2 | He was n't yet quite in the Michael jackson class , but for the last few months the little boy had been difficult in the extreme . |
| 3 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 4 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 5 | But during the next few decades , nitrates and minerals in the Andes , wheat and beef in Argentina , and coffee in Brazil were to draw the railways outwards . |
| 6 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 7 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 8 | I was bound to get pregnant , but after the first few times , when I was really scared I thought " I 'll be lucky . " |
| 9 | But after the first few seconds , the rubbing was no longer painful . |
| 10 | But in the first few feet the delight of winter flying , even in an open cockpit , was apparent . |
| 11 | Condemnation was at once forthcoming from many politicians , but in the first few days after the murders Mr Kohl turned down invitations to appear on television , preferring to offer his denunciation from the pages of a newspaper . |
| 12 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
| 13 | I would welcome a debate , but in the next few weeks many issues have to be fitted into the timetable , not least progress on Government legislation . |
| 14 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 16 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 17 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 18 | But in the last few weeks , John Major has given us two particularly staggering examples . |
| 19 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
| 20 | Threatening phone bills are quite common in this house , but in the last few days abusive calls have become popular , with an unknown voice offering to dismember certain of my vital organs unless I quit the manager 's job . |
| 21 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 22 | Initially , the area improved under township schemes in Lewis and Harris greatly exceeded that improved individually , but in the last few years there have been hardly any new township schemes . |
| 23 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 24 | But in the last few years before the war , a new military mentality had dominated French planning , the leading exponent of which was Colonel de Grandmaison , Director of Military Operations . |
| 25 | But in the last few years feminists have begun to organise together as architects , housing workers , builders , designers etc , to question seriously assumptions around housing policy and structure ; assumptions held not only by politicians , housing officials and housing workers , but also by socialist housing activists . |
| 26 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 27 | But within the first few months of opening , the hotel was on target and , if anything , had underestimated its weekend business . |
| 28 | But within the next few weeks labourers will start digging the foundations for a plant at Gwithian , on Cornwall 's northern shore , which will produce about 500 tonnes of tin per year . |
| 29 | Its owner had claimed the animal was also whipped , but within the last few minutes , a tribunal has dismissed the accusations . |
| 30 | Up until this afternoon , it was on sale at HMV , but within the last few hours , they 've stopped selling it too . |