Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 2 | But this week , the members of John Major 's new administration , whether reappointees or freshmen , will simply emit a long sigh of relief and satisfaction , and think of England ( or in a few cases , Scotland , Wales or Northern Ireland ) . |
| 3 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 4 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 5 | A bit late : the bank 's growth in lending , and therefore its leverage , except in a few countries like China , Vietnam and Argentina , is likely to slow in the coming years . |
| 6 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 7 | Except in a few isolated instances , there has been little systematic planning in relation to most countries ' social welfare personnel training needs and resources and there has been very limited involvement in find some countries and schools of social work that have adopted a comprehensive approach to social service personnel training and development and are directing their efforts toward maximizing the contribution of all available human resources to their country 's or region 's social development goals . |
| 8 | The beneficiaries are not small farmers except in a few isolated cases where costs and benefits are seen to be equally shared ( e.g. in Sukhomaj Village which is discussed in the CSE report , p. 14 ) . |
| 9 | Except in a few cases , where the law states that a product must be sold at a fixed price ( ie all retailers must charge the same price ) , retailers can charge what they like ! |
| 10 | In 1974 , Lubans observed that ‘ instructional programmes in all types of libraries have been infrequently evaluated , their need and effect have not been measured except in a few isolated cases ’ . |
| 11 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 12 | Collection of a few of the mostly common species for the home aquaria is unlikely to diminish the local fauna , except in a few special areas , which need to be respected . |
| 13 | Except in a few cases , formal inspections will not have been frequent enough to build up the kind of collective experience that HMIs have . |
| 14 | ( In fact , Curtis Bernhardt , the director of A Stolen Life , claims that both characters were not only on-screen simultaneously but passed each other and interacted without the use of a double , except in a few over-the-shoulder shots ; unfortunately he had forgotten when interviewed how this was done . |
| 15 | Nor did Egypt , which is after all a long way to the east of Cyrene ( Athens being nearer to Cyrene than is the Nile ) make much impact except in a few points of ritual . |
| 16 | Gowon behaved in a fashion which should attract historic credit in that his amnesty was a genuine amnesty ; no retribution , except in a few isolated instances , was inflicted on the Ibos in consequence of the war . |
| 17 | Today the lowland English village as an occupational community has virtually disappeared , except in a few very remote areas , destroyed by the twin assaults of the drift from the land of agricultural labour and creeping urbanization . |
| 18 | He claims that none of the release sites have been sufficiently far from the home loft to rule out the use of such cues , except in a few cases , such as trans-Atlantic displacement , and in these the evidence of homing is very weak . |
| 19 | Among adolescents , there is a feeling that Creole is appropriate " among friends " of the same generation , but not for use with parents , except in a few circumstances . |
| 20 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 21 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 22 | In Crohn 's disease the frequency of IgG anti-α antigen and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies did not differ statistically from the control group , although in a few instances the antibody levels were surprisingly high . |
| 23 | Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases . |
| 24 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 25 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 26 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 27 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 28 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 29 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 30 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |