Example sentences of "[adv prt] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 2 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 3 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 4 | Aircraft collectors snapped up the few former airliners in the sale . |
| 5 | ‘ Scurrying round to pick up the few crumbs that fall from the table ? ’ |
| 6 | Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly . |
| 7 | The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders . |
| 8 | The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes . |
| 9 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 10 | This can be shown by carrying out the few steps necessary , and so below you will find a worked example of key words and patterns . |
| 11 | I find an old plastic carrier bag , tip out the few bits of string and wire it contains and replace them with a handful of rusty bolts from the biscuit tin . |
| 12 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 13 | So she went to Madras , in whose pleasant climate she would live out the few remaining weeks of her life . |
| 14 | THE congregation from Orangefield Presbyterian Church will see out the few remaining days of summer as they plan a family fun day this Saturday at Orangefield Park . |
| 15 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |