Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed so old a few minutes ago and now he 's like a little kid again . |
| 2 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 3 | She made the clothes , baked , cooked , brewed beer and sold it , made butter and sold it , decorated others ' houses , took in others ' washing and brought up her remarkable family with little help from her husband , often penniless a few hours after getting his wage packet , a greater child , perhaps , than any of her own . |
| 4 | I felt really good a few pounds lighter and with a tan , and I wanted to stay like that and surprise everyone when I got back , especially my boyfriend , who might have been wishing I was thinner . |
| 5 | Technological advances , international competition and consequent relative price reductions in producer and consumer electronics have led the US , European and Japanese TNCs , that for the most part control the electronic media , to develop global strategies for the establishment and aggrandisement of their various hegemonic practices that would have been technically impossible , and in some cases even unthinkable a few decades ago ( see Schiller , 1981 ; McPhail , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Thing is I did n't like to ask her about her mum because er , did n't think she , she was very quite bad a few years ago when I knew her . |
| 7 | Ian Dair , who led the writing of the book for the NCC , was quite chuffed a few months after publication when the American Association of Golf Course Architects requested a copy . |
| 8 | Cross-border mergers , acquisitions and alliances in EC food-retailing , almost unknown a few years ago , are already growing ( see table ) . |
| 9 | Morale was very low a few months ago , but it 's beginning to get better now |
| 10 | It all looked very different a few years ago . |
| 11 | They , they 'd beat Arsenal in more recent years in erm in the Milk Cup at Arsenal , that was very exciting a few years ago . |
| 12 | For example , I was very embarrassed a few years ago when all his hoo-ha came out about this erm bishop who was getting this marvellous mansion in the country , and I thought to myself I 'm not totally sure whether this is right . |
| 13 | Whether that renaissance ever really occurred seems very doubtful a few years on — the issues at the centre of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge continue to be debated but usually with little reference to his work . |