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

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1 Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes .
2 The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles .
3 This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium .
4 On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members .
5 From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter .
6 I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings .
7 Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any .
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