Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 2 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 3 | Beckett was silent for a few moments . |
| 4 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 5 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 6 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 7 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 8 | Then he , too , frowned and was beginning to say something when suddenly there was one sharp whimper and , although Sophie did her best , Sandy was dead in a few minutes . |
| 9 | " Dreadnought is good for a few years yet , " he insisted . |
| 10 | Anne was silent for a few minutes . |
| 11 | Freddie was quiet for a few moments , then to Billy 's surprise he nodded . |
| 12 | The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before . |
| 13 | The effect of these inhibitors was evident within a few minutes and lasted for at least one hour . |
| 14 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 15 | Harris was silent for a few moments , regarding Manville quizzically . |
| 16 | Talbot was silent for a few minutes . |
| 17 | After it died , the silence was absolute for a few moments . |
| 18 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 19 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 20 | Margaret was silent for a few seconds . |
| 21 | A small supply of burn dressings and some iodine solution was forthcoming after a few days . |