Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [num ord] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 2 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 3 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 4 | In the course of the evening or the next few days you may come across some new information or viewpoint relating to the lecture that you attended . |
| 5 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5 , where the first few pixels are more widely spaced simply to fit everything into the diagram . |
| 6 | Then it was over , and with the end came that sense of anti-climax because tops are never as perfect as they should be , nor the last few steps as brilliantly conceived or executed . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 8 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 9 | Liz says that the next few weeks will be very testing and difficult … |
| 10 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
| 11 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
| 12 | As a result of the House of Lords ' decision in Russell v Northern Bank [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 588 , it is likely that the next few years will see the return in popularity of " golden shares " . |
| 13 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 14 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 15 | As a final refinement , you will probably find that the last few frames of each shot on the copy assembly are over-recorded at the edits . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope I do n't need to tell you the level of shock that the last few days have brought to this entire country . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is true that the last few days have been hard , ’ he confessed quietly , sliding his arm along Caroline 's taut shoulders , ‘ but tonight I will look after her . |
| 18 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 19 | The bright day was ruined , and the peace that the last few weeks had given her shattered . |
| 20 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 21 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 22 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 23 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 24 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 25 | The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully . |
| 26 | All but one of the chiefs took the oath timeously , the exception being the aged McIan Macdonald of Glencoe who delayed until the last few days of 1691 . |
| 27 | Once you have some tan , you can switch to a factor 5–6 , but save lower factors ( nothing lower than 3 or 4 ) until the last few days of a 2-week holiday , if you have a tan . |
| 28 | Everything was apparently under control until the last few seconds of flight and he was so busy trying to sort it out that fear had no time to grow . |
| 29 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 30 | Until the last few years the entire auto industry was so fixed in its opposition to small cars as to leave the market for them to foreign firms . |