Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Smashing through the few Night Goblins that remained to oppose them , Duregar and Belegar headed west . |
2 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
3 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
4 | I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ? |
5 | The last time Iraq threatened Kuwait , in 1966 , the Brits flew 6000 troops into the principality where they sweated quietly for a few summer weeks until , the point having been taken , no more was heard about Iraq 's 19th province . |
6 | So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder . |
7 | Vary the order with a few vegetable dishes and steamed rice . |
8 | This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts . |
9 | Press each pleat to the heading behind with a few hand stitches and also at the base of the stiffening , to hold in position ( fig. 44 ) . |
10 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
11 | In the current situation of economic recession , and cuts in the few nursery facilities that do exist , this option does not appear to be a very feasible one . |
12 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
13 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
14 | It did n't get me out of very much , except a few guard duties and er I collected one stripe , and then two , and I did the pay and all sorts of things . |
15 | I will , therefore , concentrate on a few problem shapes and situations . |
16 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
17 | Joseph fell seriously ill at this time , and so Ollokot , accompanied by a few Wellamotkin warriors and an elderly holy man , represented the Wallowa band . |
18 | In Britain , at least , communications are dominated by a few millionaire proprietors and a few large conglomerate companies . |