Example sentences of "and [art] [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first building campaign , Kryštof Dientzenhofer built the W façade and the first few bays of the nave in 1702–11 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once it has sprouted and the first few leaves have developed to about an inch , it should be removed and transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 6 | 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) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | The closest most of us get to Irish culture is a pint of Guinness and the first few pages of Ulysses . |
| 10 | But neither he nor Laura had time to oversee it properly and the first few months were disastrous . |
| 11 | Gave way to hens , wild thyme , and the first few |
| 12 | Never mind , the dates were going in and the last few weeks of the tour in the Eastern states were coming up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Literary fiction next , and a good time for it in Booker month , and the next few are all potential high flyers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |