Example sentences of "[coord] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket . |
| 32 | For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable . |
| 33 | In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common . |
| 34 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 35 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 36 | The Good Retirement Guide is not designed to offer you a ready-made philosophy or a few rose-tinted blueprints on the theme ‘ Life Begins in Middle Age ’ . |
| 37 | The Coventry muster put 53½ per cent at nil , or a few shillings , with a further 9.6 per cent at 20s. or so . |
| 38 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 39 | Few of us get through childhood without a broken bone or a few stitches . |
| 40 | It is an excellent way of turning a second-grade smoked salmon , i.e. imported Canadian or Norwegian , or a few slices cut from the end of a side ( sometimes sold cheaply by fishmongers and delicatessen merchants ) into a real delicacy . |
| 41 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 42 | Alternatively , add 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of soil , or a few dead leaves . |
| 43 | Maybe , we wondered , there are derelict areas , or a few jigsaw puzzle pieces , on the edge of our own city , or within its boundaries which , with a little compromise and a lot of imagination … ? |
| 44 | Where there is a strong relationship between the degree subject and one or a few subsequent types of work , it is possible to orientate the curriculum towards such work . |
| 45 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
| 46 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 47 | Each of these properties is described by a number , or a few numbers . |
| 48 | In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged . |
| 49 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 50 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 51 | However , for these proteins it has been shown that only one ( or a few ) copies are functional genes and the remaining copies are processed pseudogenes ( 6 ) . |
| 52 | " Social types rise up and die within the space of a few years , or a few months " , declared Nizan . |
| 53 | Do you ever watch the weather forecast and it says especially last or a few months ago say it 'll be minus three tonight ? |
| 54 | Or a few factors , give me some factors . |
| 55 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 56 | Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb . |
| 57 | parsley sprigs or a few fresh tarragon leaves , to garnish |
| 58 | Garnish with sprigs of parsley or a few fresh tarragon leaves and serve with crusty bread . |
| 59 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 60 | Notice that the experiment only rules out one ( or a few ) experimental factors . |