Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Over the last few years I have actively participated in various Black women 's activities . |
| 20 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 21 | Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content . |
| 22 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 23 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 24 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 25 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 26 | I think , you know , in the last few years I 've really I think it is changing . |
| 27 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 28 | Over the last few months I 've read with some considerable interest and humour all the back-biting and jibing from the Pittman and Peavey camps . |
| 29 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 30 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |