Example sentences of "but in [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the first few feet the delight of winter flying , even in an open cockpit , was apparent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But in the last few weeks , John Major has given us two particularly staggering examples . |
| 10 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |