Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) . |
2 | They sprayed the subjects with cold water when they were undoubtedly in REM sleep , and then woke them after varying intervals of a few minutes . |
3 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
4 | Duff Cooper , against all expectations of a few weeks before , won by a majority of nearly 6000 . |
5 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
6 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
7 | But , despite the much-publicized flirtations of a few aristocrats with the centre parties , the Tories are still the natural home for the landed gentry . |
8 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
9 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
10 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
11 | The eyes in his skull-like face have long sunk into their sockets , and the rotted remains of a few teeth share his fetid mouth with a blackened , slightly forked tongue . |