Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 2 | Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations . |
| 3 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 4 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 5 | During the first few days people left their houses for fear of being bombed by Pippo , but quite soon he became part of our lives and we did n't bother about him any more . |
| 6 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 7 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 8 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 9 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 10 | Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO . |
| 11 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 12 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 13 | In the past few days Mr Delors has signalled his determination to boost the executive powers held by Brussels . |
| 14 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 15 | OVER the past few weeks Spain 's government has spared no effort to defend the peseta within Europe 's battered exchange-rate mechanism . |
| 16 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 17 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 18 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 19 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 20 | In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications . |
| 21 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 22 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 23 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
| 24 | But over the past few years fashion for men has experienced something of a silent revolution , with smoother lines and looser fits becoming ever more popular . |
| 25 | Over the past few years wind generators and solar panels have become cheaper . |
| 26 | Leeds get stuck in though and in the last few minutes Newsome gets the goal to go 3–2 , do n't ask me what it was the whole match was so exciting I forgot everything ! |
| 27 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 28 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 29 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 30 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |