Example sentences of "in [art] [num ord] [det] [noun pl] [art] " 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 In the next few minutes the small parties moved in quick spurts from the deep shadow of one warehouse to the next black patch of cover .
3 In the next few days the Governor was out among the people , and newspaper reports spoke of ‘ the friendliest reception everywhere ’ .
4 In the next few days the family will arrange for her to have a check-up at the Royal Manchester Childrens ' Hospital , where she will become an outpatient .
5 If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs .
6 In the next few years no one would try to temper this vision or even to relate it to reality .
7 The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use .
8 So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat .
9 In the next few weeks no fewer than thirty-eight aircraft were discovered with fatigue cracks present in the stabiliser rear spar top chord .
10 In the next few weeks the size of the picket increased , reaching 2,500 on 23 June .
11 In the next few weeks the scientists of the West were split into two groups : should or should they not try to make an H-bomb ?
12 In the next few weeks the writing of that book was to be a lifebelt .
13 IN THE NEXT few weeks the common toads of Britain ( Bufo bufo ) will converge upon lakes and ponds intent on reproduction .
14 In the next few weeks the first lucky 10 will take delivery of the fatest road car in the world .
15 In 1877 a book was published entitled Switzerland 's Development into a Unitary State , so the trend is long term ; yet in the last few decades the country has undergone large-scale centralisation .
16 In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical .
17 In the last few weeks an obscure speed path that was constraining 40MHz yield was identified and stripped out .
18 In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect .
19 In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised .
20 Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) .
21 It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief .
22 In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion .
23 In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ .
24 In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad .
25 I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased .
26 Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say .
27 Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest .
28 But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people .
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