Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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1 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
2 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
3 | These leads , rejected not without reason , proved almost impossible to crack , although the odd few good ones would always emerge like gold nuggets in the granite . |
4 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
5 | Even if memory is limited , with only the odd few 100 K's of free RAM spare , caching makes a big difference to the speed at which you can work . |
6 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
7 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
8 | The odd few pounds yes . |
9 | She blinked twice , taking the risk of missing the right few seconds while her eyes were shut . |
10 | ( Woodbines ) ; a loaf of bread was 4 d. ; a pint of milk 1 d. , a bag of coal , 9 d. ; and for the rich few who had cars , petrol was 11 pence per gallon . |
11 | If you are one of the faithful few who keep your machine set up and working during the summer you can have a wonderful time trying out patterns and colour schemes in between knitting those delightful little summer tops . |
12 | Ideas for those knitters , but also some for the faithful few who keep on knitting . |
13 | On Saturdays we turn out in our yellow and black strip , To the chantin' of the faithful few down at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
14 | Despite the valiant cries of ‘ We are the Bencey Boys ’ from the faithful few , we were subjected to jeers from the Alborne crowd as fighting broke out between the Athletico players on their way back to the dressing room . |
15 | The size of the audience did n't increase noticeably , but the faithful few who did turn up seemed appreciative . |
16 | Nearing the concluding few scenes , Mark Antony provides a remarkably relevant passage showing just how things are not as they first seem to be . |
17 | The mindless few maybe , but what happens when these people have access to areas like Range West ? |
18 | Only the priveleged few will know what you 're talking about : - ) . |
19 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
20 | Working quantities of organic material into the top few inches will markedly improve some plants ' performance . |
21 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
22 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
23 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
24 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
25 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
26 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
27 | Instructions are required to jump to a specified store location conditional on the value in the top element of the stack ( which may be removed by the jump instruction ) ; an example is Jump to location A if top of stack is positive On the KDF9 computer various stack manipulation instructions were provided , such as to duplicate or erase the top element or to rearrange the top few elements . |
28 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
29 | Local hierarchy did not always read off academic excellence as the desired end of local practice , so that there was less concern in these rural areas for the fate of the top few than for that of the majority . |
30 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |