Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 2 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 3 | Relatively few cloned genes have been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 , but these include several zinc finger ( ZNF ) protein genes ( 3-5 ) . |
| 4 | Bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins have been seen chasing off shark predators and even killing them , but packs of killer whales can encircle and trap a school of dolphins with a curtain of sound , before selecting a few hapless victims . |
| 5 | The till girl drops a few non-essential items , like initialled and scented toilet paper into a reject box . |
| 6 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 7 | Most farm machinery and chemicals are produced in industrial centres and few agricultural services are organised from a rural base . |
| 8 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 9 | He gave me few specific directions , but I could pour out my hopes and fears and failures and be reassured and restored . |
| 10 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 11 | Of the total NHS budget , as we can see from Figure 10.2 , a small part — less than 3 per cent — is taken by the central department to provide central administration , supply a few specialist services and give a few specific grants . |
| 12 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 13 | A few specific points need to be made about some of these examples . |
| 14 | Significantly , one of the few specific promises called for is : ‘ I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked , nor suggest such counsel . ’ |
| 15 | In one of the few specific references to a member country , the G-7 statement said that the decline of the yen " was not contributing to the adjustment process " . |
| 16 | A small squadron could make a series of relay runs , each programmed for a few specific targets . |
| 17 | Consequently , very few specific appointments were made . |
| 18 | But these are just a few specific ideas ; what 's really needed is an overall plan for a cycle network linking the city centre to routes in all the main directions . |
| 19 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 20 | He explained that ‘ As far as laboratory chemists are concerned there are just a few specific uses [ for tetra ] — they have tended to avoid it because of the toxicity ’ . |
| 21 | Attachment behaviour develops in childhood and endures throughout life , usually directed towards a few specific individuals . |
| 22 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 23 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 24 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 25 | Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland . |
| 26 | A hundred years ago the reports of travellers , colonial officials and missionaries were , with a few striking exceptions , amateur works which , however well-intentioned , often conveyed a misleading and partial picture . |
| 27 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 28 | European farmers ' leader Constantin Heereman said : ‘ We refuse to be sacrificed for the sole interest and profit of the US and a few multinational corporations . |
| 29 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 30 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |