Example sentences of "few [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the power of Numbskull , Jason , thou truly art a few Brontoburgers short of a picnic ! |
| 2 | A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes . |
| 3 | Skye ran a few schooldays French phrases through her mind . |
| 4 | He suddenly laughed wheezily , his few teeth gleaming blue in the moonlight . |
| 5 | The heyday of Meccano 's Dinky vehicles was the Fifties and early Sixties , when a standard boxed Dinky car cost a few shillings new . |
| 6 | The Society had asked members not to let their own daughters enter the trade , but now , for a few shillings extra , they were training the girl learners . |
| 7 | In a few cases home-based treatment using the same approach may be helpful , although large-scale use of domiciliary treatment does not appear to be justified . |
| 8 | In a few cases private individuals have been receiving journals by post , if they weigh less than 300 grams . |
| 9 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 10 | Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases . |
| 11 | He says BSE is a worry , though there are few cases relative to herd sizes . |
| 12 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |
| 13 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 14 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 15 | Councillor Peter , Mrs Pat , Sir John , Mr Peter and Mrs and David apologize , they will be attending but they 'll be a few minutes late . |
| 16 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 17 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 18 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
| 19 | ‘ Could I have a few minutes alone with my client , please ? ’ |
| 20 | I was glad of these few minutes alone with Eric . |
| 21 | ‘ Just a few minutes alone with him was like a tonic . |
| 22 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 23 | On the first occasion , when a clear moonlight night was forecast , the most atrocious storm developed and we were forced to spend an uncomfortable few hours benighted near the summit of Elidir Fawr . |
| 24 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 25 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 26 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 27 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 28 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 29 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |
| 30 | Depending on the geology , the tectonics and thus the topography of the earth 's surface beneath it , it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow . |