Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holiday camps are held separately for the different sexes , mirroring the gender segregation that occurs in the majority of Northern Ireland 's schools , but another form of segregation in schooling which is not reproduced is that of religion , for the few Catholic schools that exist in the Easton area nominate participants . |
| 2 | They can not then use that small amount for the few personal items that they may want to buy when they are in residential homes . |
| 3 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 4 | We used to do any typing that was needed for the Aurae Phiala publications , and for the few little books and articles Stephen occasionally produced . |
| 5 | Even so , she had tied her hair back and simply slammed it on top of her head , If it had n't been for the few feminine wisps that escaped to frame that beautiful face she would have looked forbidding . |
| 6 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 7 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 8 | Still if you already have a spreadsheet machine adding a coprocessor is one of the few easy things that you can do to speed it up . |
| 9 | The infrared region of the spectrum is used to determine molecular structures via their vibrational modes , and this is one of the few surface-sensitive techniques that does not need an ultra-high vacuum . |
| 10 | Asthma is an increasing worry because it 's one of the few Western diseases that is becoming more frequent and severe . |
| 11 | The relationship between staff and students of University College , apart from the pastoral care of the few Anglican students and staff , involved me increasingly in a study of the history and culture of Burma . |
| 12 | It is fair to point our that training and education were one of the few positive points that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) made . |
| 13 | The original Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was founded in 1837 with the award of an Admiralty contract to carry mails to the Iberian Peninsula ; it is one of the few British companies that operate under a Royal Charter — granted in 1840 . |
| 14 | In the midst of the political , and often violent , turmoil experienced in Sri Lanka in recent years , the Lanka Guardian is one of the few independent newspapers that have consistently taken an ethical , non-partisan stand on national and international issues . |
| 15 | The Bank of Italy is one of the few public bodies that commands respect . |
| 16 | Thus , they remain one of the few fungal orders that have not had at least one member grown from spore to spore in artificial culture , a prerequisite for any sort of genetic , physiological or biochemical research . |
| 17 | The Juventus player 's display was one of the few bright spots as England made heavy work of beating a San Marino side made up mainly of part-time players , including postmen , bus drivers and newsagents . |
| 18 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 19 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 20 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 21 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 22 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 23 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 24 | They protested vigorously when in the mid nineties the revolutionaries abandoned the thorough education of a few hand-picked pupils and turned to mass agitation and manipulation . |
| 25 | Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations . |
| 26 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 27 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 28 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 29 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 30 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |