Example sentences of "[adj] [num ord] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Easy first few miles before the start of the ascent with the formidable wall of Siabod in your right . |
| 3 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 4 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 5 | I do hope it works out for him and am sure he has not found these last few months at all easy as he starts his working life . |
| 6 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 7 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 8 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 9 | The sense of expectancy grows in these last few days before the fulfilment of God 's promise . |
| 10 | After all , we have spent these last few days in a very secluded country house . |
| 11 | ‘ We could n't have hoped for a better first few weeks of the tour . |
| 12 | There was a lot of movement under those first few inches of surface water . |
| 13 | Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising . |
| 14 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 15 | Beatrice had a wonderfully fluent French-flavoured pen and captured the frenetic quality of their life together in those first few months of the war . |
| 16 | After those first few chats with his Aunt Emily , Alec soon realised that she was slightly senile . |
| 17 | On reflection , those first few years on the gay scene hold a certain unreality for me . |
| 18 | On the whole , those first few years in North Cornwall were very happy times for me . |
| 19 | It was an act of creative destruction , but in those first few days at the refuge what had seemed positive began to seem rootless and resourceless . |
| 20 | This gives ideal conditions for those first few days of development , making an excellent foundation for rapid weight and cost gain , growth to maturity and a good price at the sales . |
| 21 | Those first few days of my adventure were very sad , partly because of the temptation to identify with the pain present in the refuge . |
| 22 | I can only reduce the painful uncertainty and bewilderment of those first few days by learning relevant information quickly . |
| 23 | Packaging , transport and temperature controls have resulted in the growth of industries which are connected with handling and storage , but still those last few feet to the point of consumption remain critical . |
| 24 | ‘ Irrespective of the Panhellenic conference , we will need to co-ordinate our policy in the immediate next few months with the Greek government and political leadership , ’ Mr Clerides said . |
| 25 | These were : Unit Commander Strength Domanov Cossacks Gen Domanov 22,500 Cossack " Training Unit " Gen Shkuro 1,400 Caucasians Gen Kelich Ghirei 4,800 1555 Cossack Cavalry Corps Gen von Pannwitz 25,000 1st Ukrainian Division Gens Shandruk and Freytag11,000 White Russian Schutzkorps Col Rogozhin4,500 In those same first few days of the British occupation of southern Austria there also surrendered to the British various groups of anti-Tito Yugoslavs , including Croats . |