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

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1 Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing .
2 By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them .
3 She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not .
4 Moreover , there is nothing in the 152-page report to satisfy the Opposition , industry or the few remaining Tory rebels that the Government has come out of the review with a national energy policy .
5 The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound .
6 The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned .
7 It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields .
8 Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time .
9 Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ .
10 In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them .
11 The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance .
12 West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it .
13 A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits .
14 For those with bags of energy left after exploring the valley , try the local night club , or a few beers in the local pub — The Londoner !
15 Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient .
16 All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched .
17 The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time .
18 Any given male sang only one or a few of these songs .
19 The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once .
20 Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months .
21 More useful criteria would be the type of decision made such as policy or routine ; or type of situation such as whether a crisis is likely to affect a large number of employees or a few ; or whether the problem is a short or long term one .
22 In all these cases , the bone accumulations resulting from burial , pitfalls , burrow deaths and hibernation/aestivation deaths are distinguished by their limitation to one or a few species but with all parts of the skeleton represented unbroken and well preserved .
23 In either case , the same degree of dominance of a small mammal assemblage by one or a few species may be achieved , but by different means .
24 Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock .
25 And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times .
26 ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months .
27 A big slice of ham , or grilled bacon , or a few sausages , and they could put a few extra on Benny 's plate in case she felt the need of it .
28 There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward .
29 The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) .
30 Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance .
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