Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first few incidents I began to suspect there was a pattern , so I tried to find it . |
| 2 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 3 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 4 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 5 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 6 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 7 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 8 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 9 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 10 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 11 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 12 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 13 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 15 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 16 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 17 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 18 | Over the past few months I have noticed a slight decrease in the amount of information being sent for publication in Touchline . |
| 19 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 20 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 21 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 22 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 23 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 24 | In the past few years I have been amazed at the transformation of the zoo , to a very modern , progressive and caring institution . |
| 25 | I do n't know , the last few times I 've tried to come off , I have n't really wanted to come off , thinking about it now . |
| 26 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 27 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 28 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 29 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 30 | Ideally I would like to work part-time , and have written to you as in the last few years I have seen part-time posts advertised at Prentice 's . |