Example sentences of "and in [art] few " 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 Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it .
3 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 .
4 A nifty bit of sleight of hand got the ashtray into the correct position , and in a few seconds , I had a good quantity of the precious fluid .
5 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 .
6 I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise .
7 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 .
8 Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils .
9 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 .
10 Anything struck by a poisoned arrow was paralysed almost immediately and in a few moments was dead .
11 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 .
12 The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger .
13 Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away .
14 One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I watched the Land-Rover grind its way up the track till a turn of the glen hid it from sight , and in a few more moments the sound of its engine had faded to silence .
18 Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged .
19 In all Boards , however , there was an increasing tendency to merge districts ; and in a few , to eliminate the sub-area tier of management completely , decentralising management directly to enlarged districts .
20 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 .
21 Neurological deterioration in adulthood has also been recorded in some late and untreated subjects , and in a few in whom a neuropathological report was available the findings suggested active and diffuse demyelination as well as hypomyelination and reduced brain size .
22 They might also occur in infants with congenital hypothyroidism and in a few other muscle disorders ; for example , the Manitoba group reported a false positive in an infant with a congenital myopathy as part of the Walker-Warburg syndrome .
23 Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors .
24 For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers .
25 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 .
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 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 .
28 It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist …
29 In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die .
30 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 .
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