Example sentences of "in the few " in BNC.
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1 | The cell failed to send anyone to take part in the few educational courses available , such as those arranged by the agricultural station . |
2 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
3 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
4 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
5 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
6 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
7 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
8 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
9 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
10 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
11 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
12 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
13 | In the few years after 1958 a new word ( and , underlying it , a new fear ) took root : the meritocracy . |
14 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
15 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |
16 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
17 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
18 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
19 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
20 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
21 | So they choose to plant grass and root crops in the few fields on the lower slopes . |
22 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
23 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
24 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
25 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |
26 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
27 | In the few short years since AIDS came to dominate our lives , we have created a network of caring , service-providing charities , pioneered imaginative public health campaigns and pushed the government and medical profession to take the threat of AIDS seriously . |
28 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
29 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
30 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |