Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Stoddard Templeton is one of the few companies to become a Registered Firm under this scheme .
2 He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies .
3 Welsh House was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire .
4 According to figures made public in 1990 , it was one of the few republics to run a positive balance in its trade with other republics .
5 Spend a few moments establishing a slow and regular breathing pattern .
6 In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities .
7 Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole .
8 Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest .
9 A few families followed a particular trade for a few generations , however .
10 Having found a comfortable Gasthof in the suburb of Spitalhof , I passed a few hours wandering the old town .
11 The only men in evidence at Group were the Met and Operations Room Officers , and a few erks to do the pen-pushing jobs .
12 Only a few demos have a specific product in mind — most are just like these …
13 In lowland England , then , only the church , the manor house , and a few cottages pre-date the Industrial Revolution .
14 So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus .
15 And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed .
16 It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth .
17 These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule .
18 At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’
19 Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean .
20 It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry .
21 If so , store in a warm ( airing ) cupboard for a few days to allow the new neck position to settle .
22 The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time .
23 Syphilis has long been labelled ‘ the great imitator ’ and there are only a few clues to prod the examining doctor into thinking of the correct diagnosis rather than some other condition .
24 He left for a few years to manage a national school , independent of the British system , but returned to read law .
25 He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet .
26 In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings .
27 A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect .
28 Such a register carefully maintained in a builder 's organisation will within a few years provide a detailed and comprehensive list of the majority of the subcontract labour available in an area , with consequent improvement in efficiency in locating a suitable work-force .
29 From Glen Spean in the north , however , the full range is splendidly in view , the distance of a few miles revealing the individual summits in true perspective .
30 A few schools used the Minor award to take on " major " challenges , while two were successful in receiving additional project funds in a subsequent year , presumably an acknowledgement that the initial diagnosis of their need was only partially informed .
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