Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 2 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 3 | If , however , it 's absorbed by osmosis through the skin , it simply paralyses in a death-like state for anything between a few hours and a few days , depending on the dosage . |
| 4 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 5 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 6 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 7 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 8 | Asked who will be the principal purchasers at the sale , he pointed to ‘ private collectors , dealers , some middlemen and a few museums . |
| 9 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 10 | One three-month-old baby managed to talk its parents into sending Santa a letter asking for some clothes and a few bits for the cot . |
| 11 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 12 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 13 | At certain points it can reach 10 feet but a few feet is more normal . |
| 14 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 15 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 16 | We could see the army post now and the shuffling sentries and a few jeeps passing in and out of the gate . |
| 17 | One tank contains six Shannies and a few anemones . |
| 18 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 19 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 20 | A couple of gauze dressings covered the small twin holes either side of my spine , and all that remains today are two little scabs and a few bruises . |
| 21 | They may encompass whole villages or a small hamlet in which there are just a scattering of modest but pretty cottages and a few barns . |
| 22 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 23 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 24 | Fergus powered the car down out of the forest , through some more houses and a few lights . |
| 25 | If this animal died it would be a sickening blow to a small farmer with ten cows and a few pigs . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's only five years , nine months and a few days now ! ’ |
| 27 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 28 | Instead , I think in pictorial terms , and my aim in the book was to describe these mental images in words , with the help of familiar analogies and a few diagrams . |
| 29 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 30 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |