Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Neil Anderson from Ireland wants to get into the few rooms that the bunch of keys and big iron key wo n't open . |
| 32 | Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca . |
| 33 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 34 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 35 | The black culture will have a significant , if not dominant , place in your family perspective because every other influence will be portraying and reinforcing the white culture — hence a token attempt with a few books and the occasional embarrassed conversation will not combat it . |
| 36 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 37 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 38 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 39 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 40 | At first the Orcs looted and pillaged through Ostermark , feasting upon the few beasts that the people had carefully nurtured through the winter and driving the impoverished population westwards through the snow . |
| 41 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 42 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 43 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 44 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 45 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 46 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 47 | ( 1 would suggest that you do this over a few days as the list may well vary according to the mood you are in . ) |
| 48 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |