Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 2 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 3 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 4 | In the next few days Creggan began to learn about the Zoo in which he was now imprisoned . |
| 5 | In the next few days Mary spent almost all her time in the gardens . |
| 6 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 7 | In the next few months Bathsheba noticed miserably that Gabriel communicated with her as little as possible , and then only by messenger . |
| 8 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 9 | In the next few weeks Karen and Drew spent a lot of time together . |
| 10 | In the next few weeks Anne and Marilla worked hard together on the farm and in the house . |
| 11 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 12 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 13 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 14 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 15 | In the past few days Mr Delors has signalled his determination to boost the executive powers held by Brussels . |
| 16 | In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications . |
| 17 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 18 | Leeds get stuck in though and in the last few minutes Newsome gets the goal to go 3–2 , do n't ask me what it was the whole match was so exciting I forgot everything ! |
| 19 | With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all . |
| 20 | In the last few weeks loads of newt tadpoles have hatched . |
| 21 | In the last few weeks UI has lost Yumio Imamura , general manager of Asia Pacific in Tokyo , Roger Fraumann , director of Australia/New Zealand in Sydney , Lane Weggeland , vice president of business operations , Tony D'Annunzio , vice president of technology , Jack Bissel , technical projects manager , Steve Payne , director of communications , Dave Whitson , marketing manager , Andy Freeman , recruiting , Rhoda Ames , executive assistant and Diane Varga , product sales . |
| 22 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 23 | 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 . |