Example sentences of "in the few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 2 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 3 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 4 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 5 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 7 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 8 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 9 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 10 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
| 11 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 12 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 13 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |