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 .
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