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Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few " in BNC.

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1	Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them .
2	The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved .
3	Only the few three-year-old trout in the river and the salmon disappeared temporarily — but were back again within three months .
4	I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary .
5	The peasantry and the labourers had no voice at all , and only the few remaining Polish gentry had any representation in the upper house of the electoral college .
6	We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms .
7	Again , though , it is the acquisition of stratified techniques in which , at the highest level , only the few are competent .
8	Only the few recognize this moment .
9	He had spoken in so low a tone that only the few near to them had heard him .
10	Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane .
11	Between his eighth and twelfth years , he was at four Plymouth schools , and then , not even on a regular basis ; he only attended when his grandmother could get together the few pence required to pay his fee .
12	She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care .
13	His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months .
14	The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago .
15	I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
16	If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times .
17	Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz .
18	The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
19	The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
20	At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’
21	I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return .
22	Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago .
23	This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later .
24	‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens .
25	The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general .
26	The whole process is slow — perhaps a few months — but can be very quick in real emergencies .
27	perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ?
28	Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider .
29	No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure .
30	You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science .