Example sentences of "[adj] in a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 16 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 17 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 18 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 19 | I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days . |
| 20 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We should have that in a few minutes on the , the quotes side , Mark 's gon na bring them in to me . |
| 23 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 24 | The president tried to soothe the unions by promising that , as inflation drops to zero in a few weeks , real pay will increase . |
| 25 | ‘ Sunderland have become increasingly desperate in a few departments . |
| 26 | The newly founded Military Miscellany acquired a readership of 6,000 in a few months by adopting an openly reformist position vis-à-vis the army . |
| 27 | Then he , too , frowned and was beginning to say something when suddenly there was one sharp whimper and , although Sophie did her best , Sandy was dead in a few minutes . |
| 28 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 29 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 30 | Sufficiently powerful accelerators will be ready in a few years , and most physicists are confident that they will confirm the Salam-Weinberg theory . |