Example sentences of "in [art] few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 4 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 7 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 8 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 9 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 10 | In a few moments I 'd like to tell you briefly about the trading background to the figures and to give you an indication of how business has been since the period ended and particularly since our important sale started on Boxing Day . |
| 11 | ‘ In a few days I 'll have some plan . |
| 12 | In a few days I will send for you again . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 14 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 15 | ‘ In a few days I 'll be your father , and I 'll punish you just like that , as often as necessary ! ’ |
| 16 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 18 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |