Example sentences of "in [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so much to do and think about , she would have forgotten about Tom Russell altogether in another few minutes — she hoped . |
| 2 | In another few minutes , she and Simon would be arriving at the Sintra home of Margrida d'Arcos and she would be meeting Vitor again . |
| 3 | The fruits of diversification will be clear even to the most sceptical observers in another few years , they claim , when the company 's new subsidiaries will help Mercedes build still better cars while the company 's ability to throw resources into fast-growing high-tech areas will give it an edge in those markets . |
| 4 | The guy shot tonight will be forgotten about in another few weeks … |
| 5 | in another few weeks hard work and you 'll feel very What I 'll do is if I give you a note for a further two months , and we can Is your job safe ? |
| 6 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
| 7 | Intelligence , vigilance , practicality , cunning , luck , friendship — Levi was crucially helped by donations from an Italian workman he barely knew , and by the exercise of his skills as a chemist — kept you going and , in some few cases , made you free . |
| 8 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 9 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 10 | The Bishop and Lewis survey already mentioned suggested that in 1985 few librarians used the database BLAISE-LINE for selection or stock revision purposes , and many seemed unaware of its possibilities for selection . |
| 11 | The rest of his discussion in these few pages is about how all sorts of possible answers could be proposed , involving the ‘ balancing of social values ’ . |
| 12 | If they have n't dug anything out , what do you think I can do by myself in these few hours ? ’ |
| 13 | And so it is possible in these few words to dismiss a controversy which has absorbed many pages . |
| 14 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 15 | So , in these few words , I had learnt one of the secrets of history ! |
| 16 | Apollinaire concludes : ‘ I believe that in these few words I have conveyed the true meaning of Cubism : a new and lofty artistic movement , but not a rigid school inhibiting talent . ’ |
| 17 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 18 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 19 | There is a certain sense of camaraderie where people travel from show to show ; aside from the serious work of showing dogs , it is also a great social event with many new friendships being forged in these few weeks . |
| 20 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 21 | In those few moments Bert Rafferty saved Celia Carrow 's life . |
| 22 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 23 | I 've never seen it before , not even in those few moments that stayed so vividly in my memory . |
| 24 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 25 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 26 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 27 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 28 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 29 | In those few minutes the colour had drained out of them and they had wilted in the glass like faded tissue paper . |
| 30 | In those few minutes , say the prosecution , back home with the baby , Corbett , in a flash of temper , had grabbed Danielle by the leg and smashed her against the bedroom wall . |