Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1835 , as one of the few surveyors with geological knowledge , he was seconded to work with ( Sir ) Henry de la Beche [ q.v. ] to add geological data to the Cornish OS sheets . |
| 2 | As one of the few insurgents with military experience he was a valuable recruit . |
| 3 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 4 | Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it . |
| 5 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 6 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 7 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |