Example sentences of "in [art] few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of the first quatrain is one of inanimacy where ‘ late the sweet birds sang ’ , but do so no more and the only movement is in the few leaves trembling ‘ against the cold . ’ |
| 2 | Depression and a diminution in self care were noted in the few cases identified in the Kent Community Care project ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | However , in the few weeks remaining to him , will he pursue at all relevant meetings the question of the massacre at Santa Cruz in East Timor . |
| 4 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 5 | Although H pylori infection was associated with decreased acid secretion rates in the few subjects studied , serum gastrin concentrations surprsingly did not differ between H pylori positive and H pylori negative sugjects . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Prime Minister , in the few months left to him in that position , will think about visiting the Council of Europe Assembly so that we can determine whether the British Government actually envisage a role for the Council of Europe . |
| 7 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 8 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 9 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 10 | Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance . |
| 11 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it is of fundamental importance in a few cases to consider whether the covenant is too vague to be enforced or void for uncertainty . |
| 13 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 14 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 15 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 16 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 17 | ‘ Debauched little madam , what am I going to do with you ? ’ he teased , and in a few minutes had shown her very definitely what possibilities he had in mind . |
| 18 | A lovely path goes up alongside amongst trees and in a few minutes leads to the open corrie and an impressive mountain scene : directly ahead is Beinn Dearg , the high mass on the left is Beinn Alligin and on the right is the last satellite of the Liathach range . |
| 19 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 20 | We 've already put in a few letters to start you off . |
| 21 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 22 | I sha n't see you again — I 'm leaving in a few moments to drive down to Kildare . |
| 23 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 24 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 25 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 26 | The Electricity Boards ' defence ( that the offers reflected their costs because small consumers were expensive to supply ) was plausible in principle , but in a few Boards collapsed under more careful probing , and allegations of unfair competition continued to flow both ways between the industries . |
| 27 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 28 | I was due in court in a few days to begin divorce proceedings and the threat of Johnny ‘ B ’ helped to dilute the worry . |
| 29 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 30 | This range , although covered by many hundreds of metres of water for most of its length , breaks surface in a few places to form the chain of apparently unconnected volcanic islands . |