Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 2 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 3 | In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep . |
| 4 | In the space of a few cuts , he had a thick growth of stubble , his shirtfront was soiled with liquor , his hair was wild and his tails were tattered . |
| 5 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 6 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 7 | The only way to test these predictions in the space of a few years is to observe a sufficient number of protons and see if a few decay . |
| 8 | I still remember the dirty liquid in my school test tube suddenly turning a brilliant turquoise , then shocking pink and then back to grey all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 9 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 10 | In the space of a few years , Zurich plans to complete its switch from selling standard products ( such as property , motor and accident insurance ) to anyone who will buy them to fashioning customised insurance packages for specific groups . |
| 11 | Recovering quickly from a slow start , John Gosden 's colt settled matters in the space of a few strides when sent ahead a furlong out . |
| 12 | In the space of a few years the word ‘ hooligan ’ had outstripped its humble local origins and its specific reference to London gang life ( it had also begun to lose its capital ‘ H ’ ) and had come to be understood and feared as a much more general affliction among the nation 's youth . |
| 13 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 14 | A significant proportion of what you are studying today will be out of date in the space of a few years . |
| 15 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 16 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
| 17 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 18 | From sex to business talk in the space of a few sentences , she reflected fiercely , as he disappeared . |
| 19 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 20 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 21 | He had accused , judged , and branded her all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 22 | Claudia asked , her heart sinking at the idea of Dana rushing from shorts into a wedding dress in the space of a few minutes . |
| 23 | Then came a slight breeze , that grew and went in the space of a few heartbeats . |
| 24 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 25 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 26 | Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds . |
| 27 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
| 28 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 29 | A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police . |
| 30 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |