Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it has sprouted and the first few leaves have developed to about an inch , it should be removed and transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 2 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 3 | In the first building campaign , Kryštof Dientzenhofer built the W façade and the first few bays of the nave in 1702–11 . |
| 4 | Likewise , John Newcombe would visualise the sequence from the dressing-room on to the court and the first few games to stem nervousness and condition his reactions in advance . |
| 5 | The closest most of us get to Irish culture is a pint of Guinness and the first few pages of Ulysses . |
| 6 | In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war . |
| 7 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 8 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 9 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 10 | But neither he nor Laura had time to oversee it properly and the first few months were disastrous . |
| 11 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 12 | The Prince and Princess are always kept in close touch with coverage of their activities , and the past few days have been no exception . |
| 13 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 14 | The sky was dull , and the last few seconds were almost certainly wasted film , but he did not switch the camera off until the fighter had disappeared . |
| 15 | Never mind , the dates were going in and the last few weeks of the tour in the Eastern states were coming up . |
| 16 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |
| 17 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |
| 18 | By now I was enjoying the hot , sunny weather , but , alas , time was running out , and the last few days were spent back on Mahe . |
| 19 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 20 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 21 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 22 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |
| 23 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 24 | There is lively movement and chatter here , and the next few shots are quick cuts to show the activity at the various stalls . |
| 25 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 26 | THEY were cooped up in a university conference chamber listening to Ian Harley , head of the British Australian Studies Association , declare : ‘ This is an earnest academic meeting and the next few days will be strenuous and demanding . ’ |
| 27 | The rigours of the English winter soon drove them indoors , and the next few centuries saw the minsters linked up with a series of local ‘ parish ’ churches . |
| 28 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 29 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 30 | The boys headed for the tea-table , not quite hurrying , with the two umpires strolling behind and a frigid few paces apart . |