Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparation : 15 mins Cooking : none Serves 4 ¼ cucumber 225g ( 8oz ) peeled prawns 225g ( 8oz ) strawberries 1 avocado |juice 1 lemon 75ml ( 5 tbsp ) Waistline cocktail dressing salt and black pepper ½ iceberg lettuce few sprigs of dill to garnish ( optional ) Halve cucumber length-ways and slice thinly . |
| 2 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 3 | It breeds rapidly — a single female may produce 200–300 offspring in one year — and its mass production and distribution present few difficulties , although it does not thrive everywhere , is subject to disease and predation itself and may sometimes eat the wrong prey . |
| 4 | In so-called Free China distress was acute ; resistance was a priority , and even away from the war zone few escaped the effects of the spiralling inflation which beset the non-agricultural sector . |
| 5 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 6 | Without an advocacy stage few general theories in biology would ever have arisen . |
| 7 | But at Banbury 's open air pool few appeared to be taking much notice . |
| 8 | So rapid had been the settlement and subsequent expansion that by the outbreak of the first world war few suitable sites remained to attract new industry . |
| 9 | AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement . |