Example sentences of "in [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
2 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
3 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |
4 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
5 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
6 | On radio , in final few days of the campaign to elect America 's 42nd President , they still found time to talk to Stephen Kaplin , a vampire and head of the oldest vampire institute in the world . |