Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances . |
| 2 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 3 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 4 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 5 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 6 | The argument was that knowledge of multiple specific risks enhances recognition while knowledge of a few general risks does not , in fact attending to these risks will cause subjects to make false alarms in a recognition test when similar risks appear in films which had not been previously viewed , hence impairing recognition sensitivity . |
| 7 | Immerse the section , slab or plaquette in the reagent contained in a suitable dish or tray for a few seconds or until the yellow precipitate forms . |
| 8 | This portable version allows her out of home or hospital for a few hours … but for most of her life she must stay connected to a larger non-stop supply . |
| 9 | Appleton & Lange is part of the business , technical and professional group of Paramount Publishing , more familiar as Simon & Schuster until a few weeks ago , when Paramount Communications announced that it was changing the name of publishing group ( International News , 5th February ) . |
| 10 | The stew is made first by first stir-frying onions , garlic and squid for a few minutes , and then adding tomatoes , tomato purée and wine . |
| 11 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 12 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 13 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 14 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 15 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
| 16 | If this means returning to hanging for theft ; workhouses for the deserving poor and the streets for the undeserving ; the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy ; overcrowded , insanitary housing for the majority and opulence for the few ; of course we would reject it . |
| 17 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 18 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 19 | Add the brandy to the meat juices and heat for a few seconds before igniting . |
| 20 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 21 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 22 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 23 | The farms listed on p. 60 supply eggs and larvae of a few common species in season . |
| 24 | They may not be the best of friends , but between them they can quite well be left in charge of Harry and Hillmarden for a few days . ’ |
| 25 | List all your outgoings and expenses over a few weeks . |
| 26 | There are possible side effects such as nausea and headaches for a few days and extremely rarely there are other serious complications . |
| 27 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 28 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 29 | After baking , pierce with a skewer and spoon over a few tablespoons of brandy . |
| 30 | But such ecosystems are often open , in that they require heavy inputs of nutrients and energy to maintain populations and productivity of a few selected species of plants and animals . |