Example sentences of "in [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 2 | That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds . |
| 3 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 4 | The image of the first quatrain is one of inanimacy where ‘ late the sweet birds sang ’ , but do so no more and the only movement is in the few leaves trembling ‘ against the cold . ’ |
| 5 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
| 6 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |
| 7 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
| 8 | How avoid lending multinationals a green gloss in the few areas where they are performing well , while they otherwise continue in their evil ways ? |
| 9 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 10 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 11 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 12 | Depression and a diminution in self care were noted in the few cases identified in the Kent Community Care project ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | However , in the few cases where it does occur , this type of update pattern makes timing calculations relatively easy . |
| 14 | In the few cases just seen where the to infinitive denotes an action , it also brings in the nuance of subsequence , of sudden movement from one instant to the next . |
| 15 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 16 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 17 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 18 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 19 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 20 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 21 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 22 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 23 | Therefore , arbitrage can lead to the sale or purchase of very large blocks of shares , irrespective of the price , in the few minutes when the delivery price is determined . |
| 24 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 25 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 26 | In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? " |
| 27 | On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted . |
| 28 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 29 | The statements with which respondents were invited to entirely agree , agree with qualification , or disagree , were : ( 12 ) Dreams only occur in the few moments before you wake up . |
| 30 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |