Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 32 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 33 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 34 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |
| 35 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 36 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 37 | Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them . |
| 38 | Handicrafts are among the few activities that employ Indians on their reservations . |
| 39 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 40 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 41 | In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries . |