Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 2 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 3 | At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed . |
| 4 | In 1912 , C. D. Paterson of Manly in Australia returned from Hawaii with a heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers tried in vain to ride . |
| 5 | Those who had not escaped remained as a nucleus permanent staff to which a few of the prisoners passing through were added . |
| 6 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 7 | This probably represents a fair picture of the more casual breeding season or breeding records , of which a few occur in most years . |
| 8 | But the new house signified something else , the powerful hold over Sussex life which a few very great landowners exercised for the next two centuries or so . |
| 9 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 10 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 11 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 12 | Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them . |
| 13 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 14 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 15 | His own hair was hidden under a latex cap from which a few grey wisps straggled crazily . |
| 16 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 17 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 19 | Typical of these is the crossbill , a bird of the pine forests , which every few years arrives in Shetland in flocks . |
| 20 | ‘ I know what a few quid means . ’ |
| 21 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking that any changes must be major ones , on a smaller scale it 's amazing what a few new accessories will achieve — paintings and prints , plants , perhaps a new round table with a floor-length cloth on it , a small but eye-catching rug , some concealed uplights in the corner ( see pages 37 and 39 ) . |
| 22 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 23 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |
| 24 | Does it really matter what a few politicians or academics say ? |