Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 It is impossible in a few words to do justice to Schleiermacher 's stature and impact .
5 An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost .
6 I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’
7 ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart .
8 Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her .
9 ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says .
10 In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing .
11 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 .
12 Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively .
13 Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively .
14 Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes .
15 If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election .
16 I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days .
17 In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Sunderland have become increasingly desperate in a few departments .
20 Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards .
21 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 .
22 Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes .
23 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 ’ .
24 Sufficiently powerful accelerators will be ready in a few years , and most physicists are confident that they will confirm the Salam-Weinberg theory .
25 Green made another appeal in the Mercury in October 1793 , saying that his plan would be ready in a few weeks , but it was not in fact published until late in 1794 .
26 In what sense can a curator responsibly sign the acquisition declaration knowing full well that there is no guarantee that a floppy disc or tape will be readable in a few years even if pampered with executive class conservation treatment — acid-free packing , humidity- and temperature-controlled environment , and low ambient light levels ?
27 One , significant in a few parts of Europe , was the growth of a genuine popular military tradition and a willingness to regard the army as a respectable , even honourable , occupation .
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