Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 2 | In the end , in the final few days , the Labour campaign atrophied . |
| 3 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 4 | Another model of Sgr A takes into account the latest observational evidence : the radio emission from Sgr A results from a supermassive black hole accreting from the winds of HeI emission-line stars in the central few arcseconds . |
| 5 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 6 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 7 | To progress beyond such a static application of systems it is necessary to focus upon the dynamics of the system and in the preceding few pages a number of instances have been cited where physical geographers have already advocated placing emphasis upon the function of the system . |
| 8 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 9 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 10 | In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased . |
| 11 | In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct . |
| 12 | Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life . |
| 13 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 14 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 15 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 16 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 17 | The main aim is to catch the interest of the reader in the first few phrases . |
| 18 | In the first few lines there pervades a sense of darkness as the train is on the brink of her voyage . |
| 19 | Owners have to be especially vigilant in the first few moments when the dogs are brought back together , and while they settle down to rest . |
| 20 | But in the first few feet the delight of winter flying , even in an open cockpit , was apparent . |
| 21 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 22 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 23 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 24 | In the first few minutes of their greetings , the real purpose of Nora 's trip was forgotten by them both . |
| 25 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
| 26 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 27 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 28 | A Thames barge has no keel and is afloat in the first few inches of shoal water . |
| 29 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 30 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |