Example sentences of "few [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anyone building their first few projects the best advice is to avoid any mains powered project . |
| 2 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 3 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 4 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 5 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 6 | In rural areas where there are few cinemas the video centres are especially popular . |
| 7 | Merseyside quiet with small codling , whiting and a few dabs the mainstay . |
| 8 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |
| 9 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |
| 10 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 11 | In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term . |
| 12 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 13 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 14 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |
| 15 | In a few cases the obligations of the local authorities will be quite clear . |
| 16 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 17 | Amid protest marches and demonstrations , over a period of weeks some two dozen lorries carrying live animal imports were held up on French roads and in a few cases the animals were slaughtered or burned alive . |
| 18 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 19 | In a few minutes the same policeman forced his way through the mob to the gallery . |
| 20 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 21 | After a few minutes the water will change colour . |
| 22 | In the next few minutes the small parties moved in quick spurts from the deep shadow of one warehouse to the next black patch of cover . |
| 23 | Within a few minutes the basket was more than half full of food , and Mary was pouring the soup into the thermos . |
| 24 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
| 25 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 26 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 27 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 28 | Every few minutes the guns would halt as some obstruction worked its way down the long column . |
| 29 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 30 | Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal , and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle 's cabin door . |