Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preston was one of the few male friends William had who did not teach at a university . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , one of the few qualified women physicians , replied to Maudsley on this point , acknowledging that pubescent girls were severely taxed , but arguing that the quiet routine of school afforded them adequate protection . |
| 3 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 4 | Spanish Masonry had its ultimate origins in the deistic humanitarianism of a few eighteenth-century esprits forts . |
| 5 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 6 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 7 | She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead . |
| 8 | With a few choice words Adam Burns had somehow managed to take all the fun away — he 'd tarnished her act , cheapened it even , by describing her as brash and brassy . |
| 9 | In a few short sentences Quinn explained what he had done . |
| 10 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 11 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 12 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 13 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |