Example sentences of "and in [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 2 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 3 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 4 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |
| 5 | Those industrial societies which were ( and in a few cases still are ) collectivist and centrally planned , have had to cope with different problems , although they too were affected by economic recession , and faced some of the same difficulties in maintaining economic growth . |
| 6 | Amid protest marches and demonstrations , over a period of weeks some two dozen lorries carrying live animal imports were held up on French roads and in a few cases the animals were slaughtered or burned alive . |
| 7 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 8 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 9 | In the villages without supplies water for all domestic purposes is fetched from springs , from wells and in a few cases from streams . |
| 10 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 11 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 12 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 13 | Anything struck by a poisoned arrow was paralysed almost immediately and in a few moments was dead . |
| 14 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 15 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 16 | And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses . |
| 17 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 18 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 19 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 20 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 21 | The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger . |
| 22 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 23 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 24 | A lovely path goes up alongside amongst trees and in a few minutes leads to the open corrie and an impressive mountain scene : directly ahead is Beinn Dearg , the high mass on the left is Beinn Alligin and on the right is the last satellite of the Liathach range . |
| 25 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 26 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 27 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 28 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 29 | ‘ Debauched little madam , what am I going to do with you ? ’ he teased , and in a few minutes had shown her very definitely what possibilities he had in mind . |
| 30 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |