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

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1 Conversely , then , a new variety can be formed if this conservative action of crossing is circumvented by reproductive isolation of a few individuals in new conditions , whether that isolation arises with or without geographical segregation .
2 In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue .
3 His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all .
4 By a conservative appraisal of the few data at hand , she was an engineering success .
5 Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps .
6 Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs .
7 But , despite the much-publicized flirtations of a few aristocrats with the centre parties , the Tories are still the natural home for the landed gentry .
8 At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life .
9 The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel .
10 Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid .
11 Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement .
12 Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors .
13 The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity .
14 The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches .
15 On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Moment in Time .
16 These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 .
17 On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Moment in Time ( henceforth ‘ the Boston text' ) is a film title used by Guy Debord in 1959 .
18 In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) .
19 As we did not perform endoscopy in this control group , we can not rule out the inclusion of a few patients with gastritis .
20 Abubakar Mgumia , minister for tourism , natural resources and environment , said : ‘ The hunting of a few elephants by tourists will not affect the number of elephants in the country . ’
21 Even If you are not religious , it is a welcome chance for social contact and the exchange of a few pleasantries with him .
22 The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) .
23 Clearly there are other choices for the parameters , but for all realistic values the critical concentrations will be small , and the length scale of the individual layers will be a small fraction of the chamber depth in the range of a few centimetres to several metres .
24 particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air .
25 When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor .
26 That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence .
27 Over a period of a few days during early August the world 's perception of the Kingdom shifted dramatically , so that King Hussein was no longer portrayed as one of the chief US allies in the region , but instead as one of Saddam Hussein 's prime collaborators .
28 Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working .
29 The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge .
30 The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford .
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