Example sentences of "on [art] [num ord] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first few dates or longer , some young couples are too embarrassed to talk about it , let alone go and do anything about it , and girls do n't want to be seen as anticipating sex and run the risk of being labelled as slags . |
| 2 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |
| 3 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 4 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 5 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 6 | If you experience fret buzz on the first few frets you have over-tightened things . |
| 7 | This may help to activate your skin 's natural defences so that you have slightly more natural protection on the first few days of exposure . |
| 8 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 9 | I suppose a lot depends on the next few games though |
| 10 | His life depended on the next few minutes . |
| 11 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 12 | Her whole future depends on the next few moments ! |
| 13 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 14 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 15 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 16 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 17 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 18 | The emphasis on the last few words gave his game away . |
| 19 | And it was that kind of debate that that went on the last few years . |
| 20 | I mean he he spent a lot of money on the last few years on the hotel cos he had six extra rooms built on did n't he ? |