Example sentences of "[noun] from a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine an African peasant farmer trying to scratch a living from a few unyielding hectares . |
| 2 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 3 | The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues . |
| 4 | Mark you , I feel that you have to make the effort to go out there and meet the world … 'cause , part from a few stalwart friends , the world does not come to you ! ! |
| 5 | A PART FROM a few dedicated individuals who preferred to do it the ‘ hard way ’ ( we 'll discuss that in a moment ) , the flying of a model helicopter upside down became possible with the introduction of the ‘ invert switch ’ . |
| 6 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 7 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 8 | If a drug company receives letters of complaint from a few reputable doctors who have prescribed its product , should it then withdraw the product or warn other doctors of the problem ? |
| 9 | The charts entitled ‘ One-way channels ’ and ‘ Two-way channels show where people say they currently get their information ; the ‘ Supervisors and Grapevines ’ chart compares your department results regarding these two channels with results from a few other departments . |
| 10 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |