Example sentences of "in [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |
| 2 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
| 3 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
| 4 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 5 | She wandered through to the study and whiled away ten minutes putting in the few remaining border pieces . |
| 6 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 7 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 8 | In contrast with what has been reported for cervical cancer patients , the lifetime number of sexual partners has not been found of significant , independent importance in the few case-control studies of anal cancer published so far . |
| 9 | The exchanges between Bhutto and Ishaq Khan had grown sharper in the few last days of the electoral campaign . |
| 10 | In the few short years since AIDS came to dominate our lives , we have created a network of caring , service-providing charities , pioneered imaginative public health campaigns and pushed the government and medical profession to take the threat of AIDS seriously . |
| 11 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
| 12 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 13 | The cell failed to send anyone to take part in the few educational courses available , such as those arranged by the agricultural station . |
| 14 | Where the growing season in short , a successful stratagem of many plants is to remain small , grow short flowering stems , and invest their small savings of energy in a few well-endowed seeds . |
| 15 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 16 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 17 | Moreover , large-scale manufacture tended to be concentrated in a few industrial areas , of which St Petersburg , Moscow , and the major cities of Poland , the Ukraine and the South were the most significant , and the plants themselves tended to be markedly larger than in the West . |
| 18 | Crabbe , in The Village , describes the heathland also , in a few savage lines . |
| 19 | Next , in a few small still lifes of early 1910 , such as the Glass on a Table , the objects are blocked in a much more direct manner than hitherto . |
| 20 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 21 | Specimens from patients with non-specific focal fibrosis ( group C ) usually showed weak focal staining in a few epithelial and endothelial cells ( fig 2 , panel E ) . |
| 22 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 23 | He strode past her , crossing the gravel in a few long strides to open the door of his car . |
| 24 | ‘ How do I know what I think till I 've heard what I 've got to say ? ’ they will ask ; and , sitting down at the keyboard , will type in a few hasty half-baked assertions , and let the program nag them into developing a coherent and well-expressed thesis . |
| 25 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 26 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 27 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 28 | You can tell how lively they are by the fact that they work not in great white north-lit drawing-offices , like the more fashionable and established groups , but in a few cramped rooms on the fourth floor of an Edwardian commercial block , above a tobacconist and an employment agency , mostly looking out on an airwell . |
| 29 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |
| 30 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |