Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 2 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 3 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | Thus , research carried out over the past few years indicates that the traits described above actually overlap considerably with those found in so-called ‘ schizotypal ’ individuals , i.e. People whose temperamental make-up seems similar to that underlying schizophrenia , continuous with it in the personality domain but without any obvious signs of psychotic illness . |
| 5 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 6 | But the preponderance of evidence about the computer business shows that the IBM name no longer has its old magic … and it has n't for the past few years . |
| 7 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 8 | This area of planning has grown tremendously over the past few years , fuelled by the accounting discussion over brand valuation . |
| 9 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 10 | ‘ She has worked harder than all the others put together in the past few years . |
| 11 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 12 | This illness , a recurrence of the same symptoms ( violent colic , with spells of vomiting and attacks of fever ) that he had suffered intermittently over the past few years , was a sombre presage of his final illness , now only two years away . |
| 13 | In fact the numbers of female motorists has risen sharply over the past few years and since 1987 the number has almost doubled . |
| 14 | This point has now been made frequently over the past few years , as for instance in this passage from the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) : |
| 15 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 16 | Hatfield has become a bl black spot because of the closure of , er the aerospace industry in the County has suffered gravely in the past few years and I think you will agree , the closure of at . |
| 17 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 18 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 19 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 20 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 21 | One of Oxford University 's oldest tradition — Encaenia , when honorary degrees are handed out to a select few from public life and academia . |
| 22 | In hindsight , the Vaclav Havels and the Adam Michniks stand out as the precious few . |
| 23 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 24 | The discussion has intensified again in the past few years . |
| 25 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 26 | He took out the slim dossier on Mikhail Vologsky which he had been able to put together over the past few weeks . |
| 27 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 28 | It is , however , unseen and unsuspected by travellers along the road and its charms are known only by a relative few who have discovered its existence during their wanderings in the area . |
| 29 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 30 | The moment for bargain hunters to enter the market was ideal as the FTSE had slipped sharply over the past few days . |