Example sentences of "in the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the 1970s few self-made first generation Conservative politicians had personal memories of the 1930s , or were any longer inclined to conciliate the trade unions and make the avoidance of unemployment the main goal of economic policy . |
| 2 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 3 | In the end , in the final few days , the Labour campaign atrophied . |
| 4 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 5 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 6 | Another model of Sgr A takes into account the latest observational evidence : the radio emission from Sgr A results from a supermassive black hole accreting from the winds of HeI emission-line stars in the central few arcseconds . |
| 7 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 8 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 9 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 10 | To progress beyond such a static application of systems it is necessary to focus upon the dynamics of the system and in the preceding few pages a number of instances have been cited where physical geographers have already advocated placing emphasis upon the function of the system . |
| 11 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 12 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 13 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 14 | Dr Runcie repeated his offer of a limited primacy , involving the limited powers exercised by the popes in the first few centuries of the Christian Church . |
| 15 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 16 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 17 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 18 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 19 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 20 | ( In the first few , more romantic months after her return she had shared these with Nigel . ) |
| 21 | The organisation expects that , in the first few years , half the visitors will come from France . |
| 22 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 23 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 24 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 25 | In the more severe cases of mental handicap , there are various specific causes , such as the infection of the foetus in the womb , a disease in the parent , or a disease or infection in the first few days of life . |
| 26 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 27 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 28 | The main aim is to catch the interest of the reader in the first few phrases . |
| 29 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 30 | Outside , the blackbirds scolded and the sound of children playing on the green , glorying in the first few outdoor games of spring , could be faintly heard . |