Example sentences of "few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously , experimentation is going to yield better and better results , but few guitar players would find much trouble extracting a workable sound in a matter of minutes .
2 He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using .
3 A few guitar scorch-squeals here , a lash of vocal venom there , ca n't wipe out my suspicions .
4 The great breadth of the river and few crossing points means that the Stir forms a defensive barrier and a natural border between Stirland to the south and Talabecland to the north .
5 This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines .
6 Then there was the partitioned living area with a few kitchen chairs , an oilstove , a larger wicker easy chair for ‘ the woman ’ in the corner , near the window that overlooked the wharf and the meadows .
7 Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies .
8 The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ .
9 From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry .
10 Few canopy trees in Costa Rica are bird-pollinated and those that are , are visited by passerines such as orioles , which travel in groups : hummingbirds would turn trees into individual feeding territories and thus reduce pollination .
11 A few case studies illustrate the process .
12 Languages which have elaborate systems of case inflections tend to have fewer restrictions on word order than languages like English which have very few case inflections .
13 We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked .
14 On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) .
15 It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions .
16 A heavy paraffin fraction ( Nujol ) is often used as mulling agent , and its few absorption bands can usually be readily distinguished from those of the sample ( Fig. 5.10 ) .
17 Pour into glasses , top each one with a whole fresh strawberry and serve with a few amaretti biscuits .
18 The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America .
19 Apart from a few bit parts , the rest would be real people .
20 Deep in my stomach the whirling pits started a few trial revolutions and it was n't down to the meat pie I 'd had .
21 On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked .
22 The way of life sharedealers aspired to was epitomised in the lifestyle of a Sultan whom a few Tudorbury staff once had the privilege of meeting .
23 If you simply do n't need the trace facility , and I suspect that few Spectrum users really will , then check out the screen-based programs and save a few bob into the bargain .
24 As well as the above scale type there are also a few arpeggio ideas employed .
25 And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ?
26 Conversely , where the exothermicity of the association is small ( comparable to , or a few times kT , Figure 4B ) , then there is much residual motion in the associated state , and the adverse entropy of the association is only a fraction of the formal loss in entropy corresponding to the formation of a rigid complex .
27 FOR A town of such ancient importance , Stamford has remarkably few ghost traditions .
28 He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible .
29 Few people have it , but as there are comparatively few copywriter positions in London , you ca n't just waltz in and expect to make a mark .
30 In all residential areas , safety is at its lowest in long straight streets , in streets with many junctions and those with few play facilities .
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