Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they come together in these workshops the sense of greater self-esteem is more important than the extra few pence they earn . |
| 2 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 3 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 4 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 5 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 6 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 7 | In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support . |
| 8 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 9 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 10 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 11 | In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’ |
| 12 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 13 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 14 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 15 | Over the last few years they have simply been brought into line with demand . |
| 16 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 17 | Mind you , I think the last few years they they 'd sort of erm relaxed a bit more |
| 18 | They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links . |
| 19 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
| 20 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
| 21 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
| 22 | For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert . |
| 23 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 24 | Over the next few weeks they 're releasing ten of thousands of tiny elvers in Thames tributaries like the River Windrush in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 26 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
| 27 | A bright future for London 's securities firms would , oddly , be nearer if in the next few months they once again lost oodles of cash . |