Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 2 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 3 | Some of the few inspiring things in the whole gallery come from the 1951 Festival Of Britain exhibition . |
| 4 | Others who also cared that some of the few remaining oak trees would be felled , stone walls and hedges destroyed , and that the dippers on this stretch of the river Dee would be driven off by low flying golf balls , ducked the issue and remained silent . |
| 5 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 6 | The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV , and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV . |
| 7 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 8 | Fixed enemy guns fired a shell every two or three minutes on each of the few well-known routes with the accuracy of long practice . |
| 9 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 10 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 11 | The wind resistant Tactel and Ebyl Thermovelours fleece helped keep me snug and warm on the few chilly days we 've had this summer . |
| 12 | The decimetre-scale interbedding between LDO and nannofossil ooze represents timescales from hundreds to a few thousand years . |
| 13 | And our optional Payment Protector plan covers you against loss of income in the event of sickness , accident or compulsory redundancy ( subject to a few simple conditions ) . |
| 14 | It has been suggested , then , that , while certain policy areas , subject to a few difficult boundary problems , are defined as social policy , any proper understanding of the forces that determine outcomes in these areas must rest upon considerations of other policies not social policy conventionally considered . |
| 15 | When she enters her bedroom , Perk discovers she does not have lovely dark curly hair , but is bald with a few grey wisps and because this woman is so vain and ca n't bear her god child seeing her without her wig , she ends up pushing her so hard that Perk falls , hits her head and dies . |
| 16 | The largest falcon of the region , resembling a large stout Peregrine ( p. 93 ) in outline , though with slightly blunter wings with broader bases , and longer tail , but extremely variable in plumage , from almost white with a few dark flecks to almost completely dark grey ; most frequent form is like rather pale Peregrine , but lacking the dark moustachial streak . |
| 17 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've given them good service — 130 goals in 140-odd games — and feel good for a few more seasons . ’ |
| 19 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 20 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 21 | Four boys had beaten him up , forced him into a laundry basket and left him helpless under a cold shower , and all for a few ill-judged words and a bar of soap . |
| 22 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 24 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 25 | Unable to see out the operator inside was responsible for a few unintentional gropes during rehearsals ! |
| 26 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 27 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 28 | This group , which included what are known as rural or quasi-samurai , was particularly numerous in a few important domains , such as Satsuma and Chóshú . |
| 29 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 30 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |