Example sentences of "during [art] [num ord] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 2 | During the first few nights he had found sleep almost impossible . |
| 3 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 4 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 5 | During the next few days we lost my pony , two of our riding mules and five more baggage mules . |
| 6 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 7 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 8 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 9 | During the next few days I went about my duties with propriety and correctness . |
| 10 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 11 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 12 | That is why during the next few weeks we shall be embarked on considering the extent to which we can change it to the benefit of all . |
| 13 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 14 | DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE WERE IN PRÉFLEUR WE spoke little . |
| 15 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 16 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 17 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |