Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies .
2 Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them .
3 Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods .
4 Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be .
5 But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands .
6 Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora .
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