Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site . |
| 2 | In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 4 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 5 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 6 | Do you remember that paradox of love , of the first few weeks and months of Passionate Love ( it 's capitalized , like the recipe , to begin with ) — the paradox about time ? |
| 7 | Much of the debate of the first few days concerned the use of Latin in the liturgy , but the debate itself of course took place in Latin . |
| 8 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 9 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 10 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
| 11 | In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ] |
| 12 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 13 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 14 | ‘ The economic system of the last few decades has failed , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades . |
| 16 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 17 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 18 | Robbie asked , her gesture encompassing the exchanges of the last few moments . |
| 19 | Relieved to find some respite from the intensity of the last few moments , she allowed him to guide her outside . |
| 20 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 21 | Where had the ice-cold man of the last few hours gone ? |
| 22 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 23 | So an important decision has to be made in a hurry by people who are clearly affected by the events of the last few days . |
| 24 | Creeping underneath the ledge , she found that there was enough space for her to nestle safely while she slept off the exhaustion of the last few days . |
| 25 | All the emotional turmoil and excitement of the outbreak of war , all the long drawn out details of my training , the thrills of flying and the fear of death , all the bustle and anticipation of the last few days had ended in this , in my standing alone on a slushy path in the late afternoon with absolutely nothing whatever to do . |
| 26 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 27 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 28 | Tina was absolutely furious now , but the extraordinary events of the last few days had increased Jack 's confidence and he refused to be put off . |
| 29 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 30 | As he regains consciousness , he gradually remembers the terrible events of the last few days . |