Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 2 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 3 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 4 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 5 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 6 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 7 | It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact . |
| 8 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 9 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 11 | I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Medical diagnoses covered a range of conditions , including dehydration ( 11 patients ) , sepsis ( 13 ) , intrinsic renal disease ( seven ) , and haematological disease ( eight ) , or a combination of these in a few cases . |
| 13 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 15 | While she was travelling this long roundabout route Jenny could get across in a straight line by the stepping-stones , all in a few minutes . |
| 16 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 17 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 19 | Some take a little longer to persuade than others , and , like many of my colleagues , I have been involved in a few " Sweeny " type incidents ashore and afloat . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 21 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 22 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 23 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 24 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 25 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 26 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 27 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
| 28 | I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days . |
| 29 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 30 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |